A microfluidic paper-based analytical device (μPAD) for the determination of lactoferrin in human tear fluid has been developed. By using the fluorescence signal emitted from lactoferrin-terbium complexes, an antibody-free sensing system has been achieved. Application of 2.5 μL of sample onto a μPAD allowed for the detection of lactoferrin concentration in human tear fluid. The selectivity for ...

The Faraday rotation of terbium iron garnet at 1.15 03BC wavelength is presented. The experimental results have been obtained along the [111] easy direction both in low d.c. field 20 kOe as a function of temperature between 4.2 and 300 K and at room temperature as a function of the applied field (up to 1 200 kOe). The results are analysed in terms of magnetic and electric dipole contributions f...

This paper reports the determination of ulifloxacin (UFX) by terbium-sensitized fluorescence using a second-order scattering method. UFX and Tb(III) ion form a fluorescence complex in aqueous solution, and its maximum excitation and emission wavelengths are located at 273 and 545 nm, respectively. In optimum conditions, the relative intensity at 545 nm has a linear relationship to the concentra...

A Tb3+ complex with two di(2-picolyl)amine (DPA) moieties and an oligo-aspartate peptide containing a tryptophan residue have been designed as a new binding pair for use in protein labeling.

Luminescence energy transfer measurements have been used to determine the distances between the two high affinity Ca2+ binding-transport sites of the (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum. The lanthanide Tb3+ situated at one high affinity Ca2+ site was used as the transfer donor, and acceptors at the other Ca2+ site were the lanthanides Nd3+, Pr3+, Ho3+, or Er3+. Terbiu...

In this work, a novel ratiometric fluorescent probe was developed for rapid, highly accurate, sensitive and selective detection of mercury(II) (Hg(2+)) based on terbium(III)/gold nanocluster conjugates (Tb(3+)/BSA-AuNCs), in which bovine serum albumin capped gold nanoclusters (BSA-AuNCs) acted as the signal indicator and terbium(III) (Tb(3+)) was used as the build-in reference. Our proposed rat...

The interaction of three second-generation anthracycline deriv atives with polynucleotides, supercoiled DNA, and calf thymus nucleosomes has been studied by terbium fluorescence mea surements and agarose gel electrophoresis. It was shown that, as expected, A/-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-valerate had little detectable effect on the fluorescence of this guanine-specific probe except for polydisp...

A new Schiff-base ligand with a tripodal structure, N,N',N"-tri(3-indolemethanal)triaminotriethylamine (TTAIM), was synthesized. Its fluorescence intensity with terbium(III) was increased by about two orders of magnitude in the present of sodium acetate (NaAc). After the adding of the organic solvent dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to the above system, leading to Tb3+ the fluorescence was further enh...