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Direct optical detection of singlet oxygen from a single cell
Ingo Zebger1, John W Snyder, Lars Klembt Andersen
1Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Arhus, Denmark.
Photochemistry and Photobiology
|May 13, 2004
Abstract:
Singlet oxygen has been detected in single nerve cells by its weak 1270 nm phosphorescence (a1deltag --> X3sigmag-) upon irradiation of a photosensitizer incorporated in the cell. Thus, one can now consider the application of direct optical imaging techniques to mechanistic studies of singlet oxygen at the single-cell level.