[Fluorescence of mitochondrial respiration chain components in medical diagnostics]

Biofizika. 2013 Sep-Oct;58(5):813-8.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The intrinsic fluorescence of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and oxidized flavoproteins in animals and humans in the norm and in the development of pathological processes was studied. The results of the use of a fluorescent analysis in cancer diagnosis are represented.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Respiration / physiology
  • Electron Transport Complex I* / chemistry
  • Fluorescence*
  • Humans
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence
  • Mitochondria / chemistry
  • Mitochondria / pathology*
  • NAD
  • Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Neoplasms / pathology
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Oxygen Consumption

Substances

  • NAD
  • Electron Transport Complex I