Photobleaching

Sung, Myong-Hee

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Photobleaching

Myong-Hee Sung⁵

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Photobleaching is an irreversible phenomenon where fluorescent molecules lose the emission of fluorescence usually after a repeated excitation or exposure to an intense laser light.

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Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 41 Library Drive, Bldg 41, Rm B915, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
Dr. Myong-Hee Sung

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Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK
Werner Dubitzky
Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Olaf Wolkenhauer
Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Kwang-Hyun Cho
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Hiroki Yokota

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Sung, MH. (2013). Photobleaching. In: Dubitzky, W., Wolkenhauer, O., Cho, KH., Yokota, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9863-7_759

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