Quercetin exhibits a specific fluorescence in cellular milieu: A valuable tool for the study of its intracellular distribution

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2873-2878

  Nifli, Artemissia Phoebe ^a   Theodoropoulos, Panayiotis A ^a   Munier, Sylvie ^b   Castagnino, Chantal ^b   Roussakis, Emmanuel ^a   Katerinopoulos, Haralambos E ^a   Vercauteren, Joseph ^b   Castanas, Elias ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Flavonoids; Fluorescence; Hepatocytes; Quercetin

Indexed keywords

DNA; QUERCETIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; METABOLISM; PLANT; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLANTS, EDIBLE; QUERCETIN; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 34247562656     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf0632637     Document Type: Article

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