title: Spectra of voltage-sensitive fluorescence of styryl-dye in neuron membrane.
abstract: The voltage sensitivity of fluorescence of an aminobenzstyryl-pyridinium dye (di4-ANEPPS) is characterized in Retzius cells dissociated from the leech. The modulation of the complete spectra of excitation and emission is determined. The spectral changes induced by depolarization are described by a blue shift of the absorption spectrum, by a weaker blue shift and an enhanced width of the fluorescence spectrum and by a decrease of the yield of fluorescence. These changes are attributed tentatively to a superposition of electrochromism and of field-induced resolvation.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Biophysik der Universität Ulm, Ulm-Eselsberg, Germany.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fromherz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lambacher
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000737:chemistry; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D007865:Leeches / Q000737:chemistry; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D009474:Neurons / Q000737:chemistry; D011726:Pyridinium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D011726:Pyridinium Compounds; C050019:1-(3-sulfonatopropyl)-4-(beta)(2-(di-n-butylamino)-6-naphthylvinyl)pyridinium betaine