fluorophore
Noun
Meaning
fluorophore (plural fluorophores)
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(biochemistry) A molecule or functional group which is capable of fluorescence.
Examples
Another factor is that the emission of fluorescence frequently leaves a fluorophore in a higher vibrational level of the ground state.
PharmaXChange.info. Fluorescence anisotropy Fluorophores are more likely to be excited by photons if the transition moment of the fluorophore is parallel to the electric vector of the photon.
S 0 is called the ground state of the fluorophore (fluorescent molecule), and S 1 is its first (electronically) excited singlet state.
The antibodies are then coupled chemically to a fluorophore and used to trace the proteins in the cells under study.