Lucigenine is an aromatic compound, used in areas which include
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it is a chemiluminiscent compound. it exhibits bluish green fluorescence.
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lucigenin — Compound used as a bystander substrate in assaying the metabolic burst of leucocytes by chemiluminescence. When oxidized by superoxide it emits light … Dictionary of molecular biology
bioluminescence — Light produced by a living organism. The best known system is firefly luciferase (an ATPase), which is used routinely as a sensitive ATP assay system. Many other organisms, particularly deep sea organisms, produce light and even leucocytes emit a … Dictionary of molecular biology
chemiluminescence — Light emitted as a reaction proceeds. Becoming used increasingly to assay ATP (using firefly luciferase) and the production of toxic oxygen species by activated phagocytes (using luminol or lucigenin as bystander substrates that release light… … Dictionary of molecular biology
luminescence — luminescent, adj. /looh meuh nes euhns/, n. 1. the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies. 2. the light produced by such an emission. [1885 90; < L lumin (see LUMEN) +… … Universalium
Cytochrom-b5-Reduktasen — Bändermodell der löslichen Isoform von B5R3 (Methämog … Deutsch Wikipedia
