Volume 4 Number 4, December 94


 Volume 5, Number 1

  March 1995

Special Issue: Fluorescence Methods for Resolving Microenvironments in Membranes

Guest Editor: Dr. Barry R. Lentz, University of North Carolina

CONTENTS
Important Announcement 1
SPECIAL TOPIC ARTICLES
Comments on Fluorescence Methods for Probing Local Deviations from Lamellar Packing
Richard M. Epand
3
Long-Lived Fluorescence Probes for Studying Lipid Dynamics: A Review
Lesley Davenport and Piotr Targowski
9
Fluorescence Techniques for Probing Water Penetration into Lipid Bilayers
Christopher D. Stubbs, Cojen Ho, and Simon J. Slater
19
Fluorescence Lifetimes of Diphenylhexatriene-Containing Probes Reflect Local Probe Concentrations: Application to the Measurement of Membrane Fusion
Barry R. Lentz
29
Determination of DPH Order Parameters in Unoriented Vesicles
D. Toptygin and L. Brand
39
Fluorescence Lifetime Distributions in Membrane Systems
Enrico Gratton and Tiziana Parasassi
51
Membrane Lipid Domains and Dynamics as Detected by Laurdan Fluorescence
Tiziana Parasassi and Enrico Gratton
59
Video Fluorescence Microscopic Techniques to Monitor Local Lipid and Phospholipid Molecular Order and Organization in Cell Membranes During Hypoxic Injury
Xue Feng Wang, K. Florine-Casteel, John J. Lemasters, and Brian Herman
71
 REGULAR ARTICLES  
Configurational Relaxation of "Van Der Waals Complexes" in Solution
N.A. Nemkovich, A.N. Rubinov, and Yu. V. Zvinevich
 85
Band Shape Analysis of Electronic Spectra of Polar Dye Solutions
Andrzej Baczynski and Danuta Radomska
 91
Evidence for an Excited-State Reaction Contributing to NADH Fluorescence
Alexey S. Ladokhin and Ludwig Brand
 99
 Direct Determination of Kinetic Parameters for Diffusion-Influenced Reactions in Solution by Analysis of Fluorescence Decay Curves
Andrew D. Scully and Satoshi Hirayama
 107


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