Multi-photon excitation in uncaging the small molecule bioregulator nitric oxide

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1995, 2013, Pages

  Garcia, John V ^a   Zhang, Fan ^b   Ford, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nitric oxide; Photochemistry; Two photon excitation; Upconversion nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; TISSUE; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

MULTIPHOTON EXCITATION; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; SINGLE PHOTON EXCITATION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION CROSS SECTION; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS; ULTRAVIOLET WAVELENGTH; UPCONVERSION NANOPARTICLES; UPCONVERTING NANOPARTICLES;

SCANNING;

NANOCAPSULE; NITRIC OXIDE;

CHEMISTRY; DELAYED RELEASE FORMULATION; DIFFUSION; LIGHT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION; UPCONVERSION NANOPARTICLES;

NITRIC OXIDE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION; UPCONVERSION NANOPARTICLES;

DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DIFFUSION; LIGHT; NANOCAPSULES; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOTONS;

EID: 84879381435     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0129     Document Type: Review

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