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The nature of the chromophore responsible for naturally occurring fluorescence in mouse skin
G Weagle1, P E Paterson, J Kennedy
1Department of Chemistry, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario.
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology. B, Biology
|November 1, 1988
Abstract:
Normal mouse skin has a prominent fluorescence peak at 674 nm. Fluorescence emission and fluorescence excitation spectroscopy, carried out both in vitro and in vivo, led to the conclusion that the chromophore(s) responsible for this naturally occurring fluorescence is/are pheophorbide a and/or pheophytin a, degradation products of chlorophyll a that are derived from the mouse food.