Determining intracellular protein physical microenvironment using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy.

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School of Food Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China. Electronic address:

Published: June 2024

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