Ultra-Bright and -Stable Red and Near-Infrared Squaraine Fluorophores for In Vivo Two-Photon Imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Podgorski, Kaspar ^a   Terpetschnig, Ewald ^b   Klochko, Oleksii P ^c   Obukhova, Olena M ^c   Haas, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SETA BioMedicals   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SINGLE CRYSTALS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; FLUORESCENT DYE; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; ROTAXANE; SQUARAINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN TISSUE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; SYNTHESIS; TWO PHOTON IMAGING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CYCLOBUTANES; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PHENOLS; PHOTONS; ROTAXANES; SYNAPSES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84871288399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051980     Document Type: Article

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