Chemical reactivation of quenched fluorescent protein molecules enables resin-embedded fluorescence microimaging.

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Published in Nat Commun on June 02, 2014

Authors

Hanqing Xiong1, Zhenqiao Zhou1, Mingqiang Zhu2, Xiaohua Lv1, Anan Li1, Shiwei Li1, Longhui Li1, Tao Yang1, Siming Wang1, Zhongqin Yang1, Tonghui Xu1, Qingming Luo1, Hui Gong1, Shaoqun Zeng1

Author Affiliations

1: 1] Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China [2] Department of Biomedical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
2: Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.

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