Photochemistry and Photobiology

Published on behalf of the American Society for Photobiology

Edited by:
John D. Simon

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 39/69 (Biophysics); 152/263 (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Impact Factor: 2.172

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Photochemistry and Photobiology publishes original research articles and reviews on current topics in photoscience.  Topics span from the primary interaction of light with molecules, cells, and tissue to the subsequent biological responses, representing disciplinary and interdisciplinary research in the fields of chemistry, physics, biology, and medicine. Photochemistry and Photobiology is the official journal of the American Society for Photobiology and is published by Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

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Free Access to Articles by This Year's Nobel Prize Winners

• Bioluminescence of the Brittle Star Ophiopsila Californica
• Bioluminescence
• Polynoidin: A Membrane Photoprotein Isolated from the Bioluminescent System of Scale-worms
• Elimination of the Effect of Contaminating Co2 in the 180-Labeling of the Co2 Produced in Bioluminescent Reactions
• Green Fluorescent Protein

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Top Cited Articles in 2006

Direct near-infrared luminescence detection of singlet oxygen generated by photodynamic therapy in cells in vitro and tissues in vivo
M Niedre, MS Patterson, BC Wilson

The history of photodetection and photodynamic therapy 
R Ackroyd, C Kelty, N Brown, et al.

Fluorescence quantum yields and their relation to lifetimes of rhodamine 6G and fluorescein in nine solvents: Improved absolute standards for quantum yields
D Magda, R Wong, PG Seybold

Photophysical properties of fluorescent DNA-dyes bound to single- and double-stranded DNA in aqueous buffered solution
G Cosa, KS Focsaneanu, JRN McLean, et al.

Topical application of 5-aminolevulinic acid hexyl ester and 5-aminolevulinic acid to normal nude mouse skin: Differences in protoporphyrin IX fluorescence kinetics and the role of the stratum corneum
JTHM van den Akker, V Lani,  WM Star, et al.

Quantum dot nanocrystals for in vivo molecular and cellular imaging
AM Smith,  XH Gao,  SM Nie

On spectral relaxation in proteins
JR Lakowicz

Comparison of the pharmacokinetics and phototoxicity of protoporphyrin IX metabolized from 5-aminolevulinic acid and two derivatives in human skin in vivo
S Gerscher,  JP Connelly,  J Griffiths, et al.

Optimal excitation wavelengths for in vivo detection of oral neoplasia using fluorescence spectroscopy
DL Heintzelman, U Utzinger, H Fuchs, et al.

Initial characterization of the primary photochemistry of AppA, a blue-light-using flavin adenine dinucleotide-domain containing transcriptional antirepressor protein from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: A key role for reversible intramolecular proton transfer from the flavin adenine dinucleotide chromophore to a conserved tyrosine?
W Laan, MA van der Horst, IH van Stokkum, et al.