About the Book
This volume features papers on new spectroscopic methods and techniques, the development and application of fluorescent probes, and new techniques and applications of fluorescence imaging. Specific areas include the following: fluorescence lifetime, fluorescence (in vivo) imaging, time-resolved fluorescence, luminescence anisotropy, fluorescent (NMIR) labels, luminescent lanthanides, fluorescent sensors and probes, fluorescence microscopy, FRET, fluorescent nanoparticles and dots, high-throughput screening, fluorescent bioassays, luminescence-based DNA technologies, FISH and immunohistochemistry, luminescence on metal surfaces, fluorescent proteins, upconversion, multiphoton fluorescence, confocal techniques, near-field and far-field techniques, single photon counting, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), and flow cytometry. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org).
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Table of Contents:
Preface: Otto S. Wolfbeis. Part I: Fluorescence in High-Throughput Screening:. 1. Single Beads, Single Molecule, Single Cell Fluorescence: Technologies for Drug Screening and Target Validation: Martin Hintersteiner and Manfred Auer. 2. Substrate Arrays for Fluorescence-Based Enzyme Fingerprinting and High-Throughput Screening: Jean-Louis Reymond. Part II: Fluorescence Spectroscopy:. 3. Probing the Interior of Living Cells with Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy: Matthias Weiss. 4. Fluorescence Measurements on Functionalized Polymer Surfaces- Problems and Troubleshooting: Katrin Hoffmann, Renate Mix, Ute Resch-Genger and Joerg F. Friedrich. 5. Standardization of Fluorescence Measurements-Criteria for the Choice of Suitable Standards and Approaches to Fit-for-Purpose Calibration Tools: Ute Resch-Genger, Katrin Hoffmann and Angelika Hoffmann. 6. Investigating Transcriptional Regulation by Fluorescence Spectroscopy, from Traditional Methods to State-of-the-Art Single Molecule Approaches: Silvia Zorrilla, M. Pilar Lillo, Denis Chaix, Emmanuel Margeat, Catherine A. Royer and Nathalie Declerck. 7. Sub-picosecond Transient Signal Spectroscopy of Prodan in DMF Solution: Janos Erostyak, Pasi Myllyperkio, Andrea Buzady, Jouko Korppi-Tommola. 8. Frequency Domain Fluorometry with Pulsed LEDs: Petr Herman and Jaroslav Vecer. 9. Towards Single Metal Ion Sensing by Forster Resonance Energy Transfer: Jens U. Sutter, Alexander MacMillan, David J.S. Birch, and Olaf J. Rolinski. 10. Fluorescence Interferometry: Principles and Applications: Alberto Bilenca, Jing Cao, Aydogan Ozcan, Brett Bouma, Laurel Raftery, and Guillermo Tearney. 11. Acoustically Levitated Droplets: A Contactless Sampling Method for Fluorescence Studies: Jork Leiterer, Markus Grabolle, Knut Rurack, Ute Resch-Genger, Jan Ziegler, Thomas Nann, and Ulrich Panne. 12. Structural Effects of Biologically Relevant Rhodamines on Spectroscopy of Fluorescence Fluctuations: Jose A. B. Ferreira. Part III: Fluorescence Imaging:. 13. Dextrin Microencapsulated Porphyrin: Luminescent Properties: Priscilla Paiva Luz, Claudio Roberto Neri and Osvaldo Antonio Serra. 14. Lanthanide Bimetallic Helicates for in vitro Imaging and Sensing: Jean-Claude G. Bunzli, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Caroline D.B. Vandevyver, Song Bo, and Steve Comby. 15. Time-Gated Luminescence Microscopy: Russell E. Connally and James A. Piper. 16. Time-resolved Microspectrofluorometry and Fluorescence Imaging Techniques: Study of Porphyrin-mediated Cellular Uptake of Oligonucleotides: Petr Praus, Eva Ko isova, Peter Mojzes, Josef St panek, Olivier Seksek, Franck Sureau, and Pierre-Yves Turpin. Part IV: Fluorescence Probes and Labels:. 17. Fluorescent DNA Base Modifications and Substitutes: Multiple Fluorophore Labeling and the 'DETEQ' Concept: Hans-Achim Wagenknecht. 18. Fluorescent Probes for Chemical Transformations on the Single-Molecule Level: Gregor Jung, Alexander Schmitt, Michaela Jacob and Babette Hinkeldey. 19. Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes as Probes for the Determination of Enzyme Activities: Corinna M. Spangler, Christian Spangler and Michael Schaferling. 20. Which Are You Watching, an Individual ROS or Total Oxidative Stress?: Hatsuo Maeda. 21. Probing of Co-solvents in Polymer Latex Materials using Solvatochromic Fluorescence: Albert M. Brouwer, Tanzeela N. Raja, Koen Biemans, Tijs Nabuurs and Ronald Tennebroek. 22. Red/Near-Infrared Boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) Dyes as Strongly Emitting Fluorophores: Ana B. Descalzo, Hai-Jun Xu, Zhen Shen and Knut Rurack. 23. Sensitive Terbium Probes for Luminescent Determination of both Alkaline Phosphatase and Codeine Phosphate: Axel Duerkop, Darya Aleksandrova , Yuliya Scripinets, lla Yegorova and Ekateryna Vityukova. 24. Fluorescent Probes and Labels for Biomedical Applications: Leonid Patsenker, Anatoliy Tatarets, Olga Kolosova, Olena Obukhova, Yevgeniy Povrozin, Iryna Fedyunyayeva, Inna Yermolenko, and Ewald Terpetschnig. Part V: Fluorescence Micro- and Nanoparticles:. 25. Photon Upconversion in Homogeneous Fluorescence-Based Bioanalytical Assays: Tero Soukka, Terhi Rantanen and Katri Kuningas. 26. Processing and Characterization of Au Nanoparticles for Use in Plasmon Probe Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Biosystems: Y. Chen, J. A. Preece and R. E. Palmer. 27. Multi-functionalized Biocompatible Microspheres for Sensing: Rosario M. Sanchez-Martin , Lois Alexander and Mark Bradley. 28. Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles: Heike Mader, Xiaohua Li, Sayed Saleh, Martin Link and Otto S. Wolfbeis. 29. Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Fullerenes: From Fundamentals to Applications: Carlos Baleizao and Mario N. Berberan-Santos. 30. Stability and Fluorescence Quantum Yield of CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots-Influence of the Thickness of the ZnS-shell: Markus Grabolle, Jan Ziegler, Alexei Merkulov, Thomas Nann and Ute Resch-Genger. 31. Size Distributions of CdS Nanoparticles Obtained from Templating Methods: Paulo J.G. Coutinho, Candido A. G. Mendes and Teresa S. V. Reis. 32. Excitation Energy Transfer and Trapping in Dye-loaded Solid Particles: Hernan B. Rodriguez and Enrique San Roman. 33. Characterization of Water-soluble Luminescent Quantum Dots by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy: Chaoqing Dong, Xiangyi Huang and Jicun Ren. 34. Luminescent Amino-functionalized or Erbium-doped Silica Spheres for Biological Applications: Francesco Enrichi. 35. Preparation and Characterization of Nanocrystalline ZrO2:Yb3+,Er3+ Up-conversion Phosphors: Iko Hyppanen, Jorma Holsa, Jouko Kankare, Mika Lastusaari and Laura Pihlgrena. 36. Nano- and Microparticles of Organic Fluorescent Dyes: Self-organization and Optical Properties: Suzanne Fery-Forgues, Mouhammad Abyan and Jean-Francois Lamere. Part VI: Biophysical Fluorescence and Bioanalytical Fluorescence:. 37. Flow Cytometric FRET Analysis of erbB Receptor Interaction on a Cell-by-Cell Basis: Simone Diermeier-Daucher, Max Hasmann and Gero Brockhoff. 38. Rolling Circle Amplification A New Detection Method for the Sensitive Measurement of Interactions on Biochips: Elke Mayer-Enthart, Julien Sialelli, Knut Rurack, Ute Resch-Genger, Daniela Koster and Harald Seitz. 39. Fluorescent Studies on Cooperative Binding of Cationic Pheophorbide-a Derivative to Polyphosphate: Olga Ryazanova, Igor Voloshin, Igor Dubey and Victor Zozulya. 40. The Effect of pH on Aqueous Phenylalanine Studied Using a 265 nm Pulsed Light-emitting Diode: Alexander M. Macmillan, Colin D. McGuinness, Kulwinder Sagoo, David McLoskey, John C. Pickup and David J. S. Birch. 41. Ordered Self-assembly of Protonated Porphyrin Induced by the Aqueous Environment of Biomimetic Systems: Suzana M. Andrade and Silvia M.B. Costa. 42. Human Serum Albumin-Flavonoids Interactions Monitored by Means of Tryptophan Kinetics: Olaf J Rolinski, Andrew Martin and David J.S. Birch. 43. Two-photon Excitation Fluorescence Bioassays: Pekka Hanninen, Jori Soukka and Juhani T. Soini
