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Intravital Fluorescence Microscopy to Study Microvascular Thrombus Formation
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2025
This video demonstrates the intravital fluorescence microscopy technique to study thrombus formation in a mouse model. The mouse is injected with a fluorophore-labeled polysaccharide to monitor blood circulation. Upon illumination with a high-intensity light, the phototoxic induction of an injury in the microvasculature of the ear leads to the formation of a thrombus, which is confirmed by visualizing the obstruction in the blood flow.
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Standard Enthalpy of Formation
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2020
Enthalpy changes are typically tabulated for reactions in which both the reactants and products are at the same conditions. A standard state is a commonly accepted set of conditions used as a reference point for the determination of properties under other different conditions. For chemists, the IUPAC standard state refers to materials under a pressure of 1 bar and solutions at 1 M and does not specify a temperature. Many thermochemical tables list values with a standard state of 1 atm. Because...
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HUVEC Tube-formation Assay to Evaluate the Impact of Natural Products on Angiogenesis
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2019
Here, we evaluate the effects of the water extract of Ruta graveolens on vessel network formation by using a tube formation assay on a gelled basement matrix.
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Fluorescent Reporter-Based Paralysis Assay: A Technique to Assess Age-Associated Progressive Formation of Polyglutamine Fluorescent Reporter and Associated Paralysis in Caenorhabditis elegans
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2025
This video demonstrates an in vivo imaging-based assay to determine proteostasis decline due to aging. The assay uses Caenorhabditis elegans expressing polyglutamine YFP-fusion protein in body wall muscles to measure the age-associated aggregation of polyglutamine and induction of proteotoxicity, leading to paralysis.
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"Phagosome Closure Assay" to Visualize Phagosome Formation in Three Dimensions Using Total Internal Reflection Fluorescent Microscopy (TIRFM)
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2016
We describe an experimental setup to visualize with unprecedented high resolution phagosome formation and closure in three dimensions in living macrophages, using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. It allows monitoring of the base of the phagocytic cup, the extending pseudopods, as well as the precise site of phagosome scission.
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The fluorophore is the critical chemical feature because its electronic configuration determines whether the newly formed product can respond to excitation with detectable emission. A reaction may create this structure or reveal it within an existing molecular system. That distinction makes fluorescence an indicator of a molecular transformation rather than merely a property of the starting materials.
After absorbing radiation, the fluorophore reaches a higher energy state. As it returns to a lower energy state, it emits light, producing the measurable signal associated with the product. This excitation and return sequence explains why the chemical transformation can be followed optically, rather than inferred only from an otherwise unobserved molecular change.
Fluorescence intensity and emission spectra answer related but different questions. Intensity provides a measure that can track how much fluorescent product appears or changes during a reaction, whereas an emission spectrum describes the emitted light. Using both measurements can connect product formation with spectral behavior and help characterize the fluorescent response of the reaction.
Fluorescent product formation is especially useful when the compound produced by a reaction is difficult to observe directly. Creating or revealing a fluorophore gives that transformation a measurable optical signal, allowing researchers to detect the product through fluorescence rather than relying solely on its direct visibility. This makes otherwise hard-to-observe chemistry accessible to analytical measurement.
By measuring fluorescence intensity or emission spectra associated with a reaction mixture, researchers can compare the fluorescent signal as the reaction proceeds. Changes in those measurements provide information about product formation and reaction progress. The approach converts molecular transformation into data that can be examined through signal strength or through the emitted-light characteristics represented by a spectrum.
Applications include reaction monitoring, analytical assays, and detection of compounds that are otherwise difficult to observe. In reaction monitoring, fluorescence helps follow product formation; in assays, it supplies a measurable readout; and in difficult detection tasks, it makes the chemical species easier to detect or measure through its emitted light and associated concentration information.