Meanings
nounhemicyanine (plural hemicyanines)
plural hemicyanines
- chemistryAny of a class of dyes having two aromatic groups linked by an ethylene group
This study uses di-4-ANE(F)PPTEA, a hemicyanine class dye, that embeds itself in the cellular membranes of hiPS-CM and exhibits a proportional increase in fluorescence intensity as the voltage across the membrane increases.
2015 December 23, “Supervised Machine Learning for Classification of the Electrophysiological Effects of Chronotropic Drugs on Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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