Azobenzene-caged sulforhodamine dyes: A novel class of 'turn-on' reactive probes for hypoxic tumor cell imaging

Methods and Applications in Fluorescence

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Chevalier, Arnaud ^a   Piao, Wen ^b   Hanaoka, Kenjiro ^b   Nagano, Tetsuo ^b   Renard, Pierre Yves ^a   Romieu, Anthony ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^d INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Azo compound; Hypoxia; Reaction based fluorescent probe; Reductase; Sulforhodamine supplementary material for this article is available online

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976528110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20506120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/3/4/044004     Document Type: Article

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