hemicyanine
English
Etymology
Noun
hemicyanine (plural hemicyanines)
- (organic chemistry) Any of a class of dyes having two aromatic groups linked by an ethylene group
- 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[1], :
- 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.