Trehalose-induced Changes of the Ethidium Hydration Shell Detected by Time-resolved Fluorescence

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 376-382

  Collini, Maddalena ^a,b   D'Alfonso, Laura ^a,b   Baldini, Giancarlo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia Milan   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHIDIUM; FLUORESCENT DYE; TREHALOSE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; DEHYDRATION; DNA HELIX; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; HYDRATION; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR PROBE; OSMOTIC STRESS; CHEMISTRY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ETHIDIUM; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TREHALOSE;

EID: 0038545402     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)077<0376:TCOTEH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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