What's the difference between fluorescein and fluorescence?

Fluorescein


Definition:

  • (n.) A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have evaluated the life-span of B lymphocytes by measuring the functional reactivity of normal B cells upon transfer into xid mice, which do not respond to anti-mu, fluoresceinated-Ficoll (FL-Ficoll) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl aminoethylcarbamylmethyl Ficoll (TNP-Ficoll).
  • (2) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
  • (3) Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-ricin exhibited binding to schistosomula and adult worms, but not to cercariae or to freshly transformed schistosomula.
  • (4) The greater biliary excretion and hepatic extraction of cholyl-lys-F relative to free fluorescein further suggest that conjugation with a bile salt may be an efficient way of targeting compounds to the liver.
  • (5) Fluorescein-coupled peanut agglutinin (PNA) has been used at the single-cell level to study mouse lymphocyte subpopulations.
  • (6) Commercially available fluorescein-conjugated somatic antiserum was used in comparing this method with conventional culture, biochemical, and serological procedures.
  • (7) Renal tissues from two groups of patients were studied with fluorescein-labeled (Fl-) antibodies (Abs) to immunoglobulins, complement, and antibodies prepared in rabbits against BSA conjugate of 5-methyluridine (T) and cytidine (C), the latter two of which react specifically with denatured DNA.
  • (8) The DNA and protein contents of isolated basal cells were stained with propidium iodide and fluorescein isothiocyanate, respectively, and analysed by flow cytometry using the total protein fluorescence as an estimate of cell size and the DNA fluorescence pulse width as an estimate of nuclear size.
  • (9) Fluorescein-labelled gamma globulin fractions of anti-avidin and anti-uteroglobin both bound to blastocysts, but pure FITC-IgG showed binding only of anti-uteroglobin.
  • (10) The differences between periodate- and NAGO-induced aldehydes were demonstrated by flow cytometry of cells stained with a novel fluoresceinated hydrazide and by an electrophoretic procedure performed with biocytin hydrazide and 125I-streptavidin.
  • (11) For this, rabbit anti-chicken globulin fluorescein isothiocyanate conjugate was used.
  • (12) Active transport of fluorescein across the blood-retinal barrier in the direction of vitreous to blood does not seem to be significant within the first 2 hr after fluorescein injection.
  • (13) The treatment was almost only in those angiopathies successful, in which the fluorescein angiography showed a preponderance of the hyperpermeability over the obliterating process of retinal capillaries.
  • (14) Survivability was judged by morphological appearance, trypan blue exclusion and fluorescein diacetate staining.
  • (15) Cytofluorographic analyses confirmed the increased expression of high-affinity FcR, binding fluoresceinating murine IgG2a.
  • (16) Single islet cells in monolayer cultures of neonatal rat pancreas were microinjected with fluorescein and scanned topographically by microfluorometry.
  • (17) Indirect immunofluorescence microscopy with fluorescein isothiocyanate-anti-mouse immunoglobulin G also identified the antigen on the surface of cultured and fresh tumor cells and detected the antigen on 16 of 17 Grade 3 bladder tumor specimens as well as on some kidney and testicular tumor cells.
  • (18) The expression of EBVR was established by the binding of fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-labeled EBV to the cells, while surface markers were stained by phycoerythrin (PE)-indirect immunofluorescence, using monoclonal antibodies.
  • (19) IC50 values of 6.8.10(-9), 1.7.10(-8), 1.8.10(-8) and 5.4.10(-9) M were measured in rat liver membranes for NBD-, fluorescein-, rhodamine-Trp25-glucagon and native glucagon, respectively.
  • (20) Sodium fluorescein and fluorescinated dextrans (FD) of selected molecular weights were combined and perfused into the anterior chamber of normal and inflamed eyes of cynomolgus monkeys.

Fluorescence


Definition:

  • (n.) That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
  • (2) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
  • (3) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
  • (4) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
  • (5) Absorbance or fluorescence measurements may be used for detection.
  • (6) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
  • (7) Likewise, they had little or no effects on the fluorescence anisotropy of TMA-DPH, which is also thought to be located in the interfacial region of the lipid bilayer, either when the probe was located in the outer layer of the plasma membrane or when the probe was located in the inner membrane compartment.
  • (8) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
  • (9) Sulphuric acid fluorescence is used for quantitation and specificity is achieved by the addition of tritiated oestrone to the urine hydrolysate.
  • (10) At the light-microscopic level, adrenergic fibres were identified due to their formaldehyde-induced fluorescence.
  • (11) Equilibrium and kinetic studies of the interaction of gene 32 protein of T4 phage with single-stranded fd DNA were performed monitoring the changes in protein fluorescence.
  • (12) The drug is extracted from serum or urine with ethyl acetate, separated by TLC, and determined by fluorescence quenching densitometry.
  • (13) In all these subjects, fluorescent staining and G-banding on chromosomes from cultured leukocytes confirmed their karyotype.
  • (14) Vital staining of neuroblastoma cells with acridine orange produces a bright intracellular red-orange fluorescence most probably due to the occurrence of RNA.
  • (15) Time-resolved tyrosine fluorescence anisotropy shows global correlation times broadly in agreement with the NMR results, but with an additional faster correlation time [approximately 600 ps].
  • (16) The specific fluorescence was affected following reserpine or 6-hydroxydopamine treatment; however, the rewarming process restored fluorescence only in the reserpine-treated tissue.
  • (17) I evaluated use of the fluorescence polarization technique to measure neocarzinostatin, a proteinaceous antitumor antibiotic, and its antibody, in serum.
  • (18) In the analysis of background fluorescence, the principal components were, as for the two-step technique, autofluorescence and propidium spectral overlap.
  • (19) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
  • (20) The influence of exogenous gangliosides on the structure of the viral envelope was studied using fluorescent and photoactivatable phospholipids incorporated into the viral membrane.