The nature of the chromophore responsible for naturally occurring fluorescence in mouse skin

✍ Scribed by G. Weagle; P.E. Paterson; J. Kennedy; R. Pottier

• Book ID: 103992927
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 583 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1011-1344
• DOI: 10.1016/1011-1344(88)85051-6

✦ Synopsis

Normal mouse skin has a prominent fluorescence peak at 674 nm. Fluorescence emission and fluorescence excitation spectroscopy, carried out both in vitro and in vivo, led to the conclusion that the chromophore(s) responsible for this naturally occurring fluorescence is/are pheophorbide a and/or pheophytin a, degradation products of chlorophyll a that are derived from the mouse food.