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In the last decade concepts in fluorescence sensing have emerged as powerful techniques with an increasing number of applications in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, and medicine. The increasing importance of these techniques is typified in one emerging area by developing non-invasive and continuous approaches for physiological glucose monitoring.
List of contents
N-Phenylboronic Acid Derivatives of Arenecarboximdes as Saccharide Probes with Virtual Spacer Design.- Genesis of Fluorophore Formation in Macrocycle Solutions and the Detection of Glucose and Related Sugars.- Two-Component Optical Sugar Sensing Using Boronic Acid-Substituted Viologens with Anionic Fluorescent Dyes.- Implantable Concanavlin a Based Sensors for Interstitial Fluid Glucose Sensing in Diabetics.- Fluorescence Biosensors for Continuously Monitoring the Blood Glucose Level of Diabetic Patients.- Microcapsules as "Smart Tattoo" Glucose Sensors: Engineering Systems with Enzymes and Glucose-Binding Sensing Elements.- Non-Invasive Monitoring of Diabetes.- Optical Enzyme-Based Glucose Biosensors.- Saccharide recognition by Boronic Acid Fluorophore/Cyclodextrin Complexes in Water.- Plasmonic Glucose Sensing.- Optically-Based Affinity Biosensors for Glucose.- Recent Chemiluminescence Applications for Glucose Sensing.- The Glucose Binding Protein as Glucose Sensor.- Fluorescent Tict Sensors for Saccharides.- Glucose Sensing and Glucose Determination Using Fluorescent Probes and Molecular Receptors.- Boronic Acid-Based Fluorescence Sensors for Glucose Monitoring.- Development of Smart Contact Lenses for Ophthalmic Glucose Monitoring.
About the author
Dr Chris D. Geddes, Ph.D., Professor, has extensive experience in fluorescence spectroscopy and Plasmonics, particularly in fluorescence sensing and metal-fluorophore interactions (Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence), publishing over 200 papers and 20 books. Dr Geddes is internationally known in fluorescence for his scholarly publications and for the development of fluorescence-based plasmonics. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Fluorescence and founding editor of the Who s Who in Fluorescence and Annual Reviews in Fluorescence volumes. In addition, due to the labs pioneering efforts in the fields of metallic nanoparticle-fluorophore interactions, Dr Geddes launched the Springer Journal "Plasmonics" in 2005. Dr Geddes is Director of the Institute of Fluorescence at the University of Maryland Baltimore County which focuses on the nano-bio-technological applications of fluorescence. Dr Geddes frequently chairs NIH study sections and is currently a permanent member of the NIH EBIT study section. §http://theinstituteoffluorescence.com/
Summary
In the last decade concepts in fluorescence sensing have emerged as powerful techniques with an increasing number of applications in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, and medicine. The increasing importance of these techniques is typified in one emerging area by developing non-invasive and continuous approaches for physiological glucose monitoring.
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From the reviews:
"Excellent, invaluable and timely contributions, which serve very well to demonstrate the applicability of fluorescence to the field of glucose sensing and fluorescence-based monitoring technologies. … this book addresses issues that researchers actually grapple with when they are working on a particular project or investigation in fluorescence-based monitoring technologies. … The volume has the hallmarks of thoroughness and insights that can bring us researchers up to date with a map of the sensing and monitoring evaluation territory which new travelers also find invaluable." (Current Engineering Practice, 2007)
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From the reviews:
"Excellent, invaluable and timely contributions, which serve very well to demonstrate the applicability of fluorescence to the field of glucose sensing and fluorescence-based monitoring technologies. ... this book addresses issues that researchers actually grapple with when they are working on a particular project or investigation in fluorescence-based monitoring technologies. ... The volume has the hallmarks of thoroughness and insights that can bring us researchers up to date with a map of the sensing and monitoring evaluation territory which new travelers also find invaluable." (Current Engineering Practice, 2007)
