Fluorescence spectroscopy in biology

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Basics of fluorescence spectroscopy : basics and advanced approaches -- Pulse and phase fluorometries : an objective comparison -- Non-exponential fluorescence of electronically coupled donors contains distance information -- Fluorescence nanotomography : recent progress, constraints and opportunities -- Solvent relaxation as a tool for probing micro-polarity and fluidity -- Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy : applications to biophysics -- Single molecule spectroscopy : basics and applications -- Raft microdomains in model membranes as revealed by fluorescence quenching -- The lateral structure of lipid membranes as seen by fluorescence microscopy -- Protein dynamics and protein folding dynamics revealed by time-resolved fluorescence -- Time-resolved fluorescence and two-photon FCS investigation of the interaction of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein with hairpin loop oligonucleotides -- Fluorescence techniques in non-viral gene therapy -- Fluorescence applications in targeted drug delivery -- Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy in cell biology -- Fluorescence quantum dots : properties and applications -- Heat stress of cancer cells : fluorescence imaging of structural changes with quantum dots 605 and Alexa 488.