title: The nature of the chromophore responsible for naturally occurring fluorescence in mouse skin.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Weagle
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Paterson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pottier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002734:Chlorophyll / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism; D000077194:Chlorophyll A; D005453:Fluorescence; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D012867:Skin / Q000378:metabolism*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D002734:Chlorophyll; C032623:pheophorbide a; D000077194:Chlorophyll A