Autofluorescence is the natural emission of light by biological structures such as mitochondria and lysosomes when they have absorbed light, and is used to distinguish the light originating from artificially added fluorescent markers (fluorophores). The most commonly observed autofluorescencing molecules are NADPH and flavins; the extracellular ma...
Property of a compound or material that will fluoresce in its own right - without the addition of an exogenous fluorophore. A common problem in fluorescence microscopy and in assays where the read-out is fluorescence.
[n] - self-induced fluorescence
noun self-induced fluorescence