Mapping the pharyngeal and intestinal pH of Caenorhabditis elegans and real-time luminal pH oscillations using extended dynamic range pH-sensitive nanosensors

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5577-5587

  Chauhan, Veeren M ^a   Orsi, Gianni ^b   Brown, Alan ^a   Pritchard, David I ^a   Aylott, Jonathan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

C. elegans; fluorescence; lumen; nanosensors; pH measurement; pH oscillations; real time

Indexed keywords

ELEGANS; LUMEN; PH MEASUREMENTS; PH OSCILLATIONS; REAL-TIME;

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUOROPHORES; NANOSENSORS; POTENTIOMETRIC SENSORS;

PH EFFECTS;

6 CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; 6-CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; INTESTINE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PH; PHARYNX; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PHARYNX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879652969     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn401856u     Document Type: Article

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