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fluorochrome
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fluorochrome /flu·o·ro·chrome/ (-krōm) a fluorescent compound used as a dye to mark protein with a fluorescent label.
fluor·o·chrome (flr-krm, flôr-)
n.
Any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to stain tissues and cells for examination by fluorescence microscopy.

fluorochrome [floor´-o-krōm]
a fluorescent compound, as a dye, used to mark protein with a fluorescent label.

fluorochrome
a fluorescent compound, as a dye, used to mark protein with a fluorescent label. See also fluorescein.


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[4] It enables the possibilities to investigate the autofluoresecence and spatial distribution of photoreceptors at early stage of ocular diseases, since it can increase the penetrability through the thick biological tissue and provide high-resolution imaging of endogenous fluorophores in biological tissue.
To demonstrate the movement, the researchers attached a fluorophore, or light-emitter, to one end of the nanomotor and a quencher, which can quench the emitting light, to the other end.
16-22 Probes are made using DNA fragments cloned from yeast or bacterial artificial chromosomes and, with FISH, are directly or indirectly fluorophore labeled, most often using Texas Red, fluorescing red, and fluorescein isothiocyanate, fluorescing green.
 
 
 
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