Lifetime, mean observed

These experimental results can be rationalized by means of the potential energy profiles shown in Figure 4. In both experiments referred to above, the fluorescence lifetime decreases slowly and almost linearly as the Sj excess vibrational energy is increased until an energy threshold is reached and a dramatic decrease in excited state lifetime is observed. Quantum chemical computations... 

In a steady state experiment the PIA signal Y is proportional to neq. Measuring the PIA with a lock-in amplifier means exciting the sample with a periodic time-dependent pump photon flux. The latter can be approximated by a square wave that switches between a constant flux and zero photons with a frequency /= 1/r. As shown in Refs. [32] and [33] the PIA signal, measured with a lock-in amplifier Y, shows the same functional dependence on p as ncq in Eq. (9.5). For the monomo-lecular (p-1) and bimolecular (//=2) case the influence of r depends on t, the lifetime of the observed states, as follows ... 

Using the cell-attached patch clamp technique on frog muscle fibers (79), one can observe only two conditions the open, conducting state of the receptor and a nonconducting state of unknown identity. The transitions behave according to stochastic principles the lifetimes of any particular condition are distributed exponentially. The open state has a mean duration that is the inverse of the rate of channel closing. Because channel open time depends only upon a conformational shift, agonist concentration does not influence the parameter. It is, however, influenced... 

The primary characteristic of a sequential blocker, as observed with the patch clamp technique, is that the reciprocal of the mean duration of the lifetime equals the normal channel closing rate plus the rate constant of channel blockade times the drug concentration. Therefore, increasing the drug concentration shortens the mean channel open time. 

However, results obtained by Koo et al. (1991) indicate that low to moderate lead exposure (average lifetime PbB level range of 4.9-23.6 pg/dL, geometric mean of 9.8 pg/dL, n=105) in young children with adequate nutritional status, particularly with respect to calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D, has no effect on vitamin D metabolism, calcium and phosphorus homeostasis, or bone mineral content. The authors attribute the difference in results from those other studies to the fact that the children in their study had lower PbB levels (only 5 children had PbB levels >60 pg/dL and all 105 children had average lifetime PbB levels <45 pg/dL at the time of assessment) and had adequate dietary intakes of calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D. They concluded that the effects of lead on vitamin D metabolism observed in previous studies may, therefore, only be apparent in children with chronic nutritional deficiency and chronically elevated PbB levels. Similar conclusions were reached by IPCS (1995) after review of the epidemiological data. 

Many probes are now known that display changes in fluorescence lifetime on complexation of the analyte, photophysical properties some of them are summarized in Table 10.2. While we have listed the lifetimes of the free and the bound forms of the probes, there is no straightforward equation to calculate the analyte concentration using the mean lifetime as was in the case of the absorbance and intensity (Eqs. (10.14) and (10.15)). The mean lifetime depends not only on relative concentration of the probe species (free and complexed) but also on their decay times, quantum yields, and to some extent on the measurement (method or conditions). While the mean lifetime is independent of total probe concentration, this value generally depends not only on analyte concentration but also on excitation and observation wavelengths.03 ... 

The elucidation of the intramolecular dynamics of tryptophan residues became possible due to anisotropy studies with nanosecond time resolution. Two approaches have been taken direct observation of the anisotropy kinetics on the nanosecond time scale using time-resolved(28) or frequency-domain fluorometry, and studies of steady-state anisotropy for xFvarying within wide ranges (lifetime-resolved anisotropy). The latter approach involves the application of collisional quenchers, oxygen(29,71) or acrylamide.(30) The shortening of xF by the quencher decreases the mean time available for rotations of aromatic groups prior to emission. 

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