The book covers the fundamental aspects of bioluminescence, including beetle, marine bacterial and Cypridina bioluminescence, and the fundamental aspects of chemiluminescence, including 1,2-dioxetanes. It also presents recent developments in instrumentation and devices and a wide range of applications of bioluminescence and chemiluminescence.

The applications are succinctly described and include applications of luminescence in antioxidant research, phagocytosis, microbiology, ecology, food and environmental testing, immunoassay, enzyme assays, DNA probe assays, and reporter gene and gene expression assays.

The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:
• Biochemistry & Biophysics Citation Index™
• Chemistry Citation Index™
• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings® (ISTP® / ISI Proceedings)
• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)
• CC Proceedings — Engineering & Physical Sciences
• CC Proceedings — Biomedical, Biological & Agricultural Sciences

Contents:

• Bioluminescence and Mating Behavior in Pony Fish, Leiognathus nuchalis (N Azuma et al.)
• Importance of Firefly Luciferase C-terminal Domain in Binding of Luciferyl-Adenylate (K Ayabe et al.)
• Effect of Oxygen and Hydrogen Ion on the Modulation of the Bioluminescence from Luminous Bacteria (H Karatani et al.)
• Superoxide or Singlet Oxygen: The Chemiluminescence of Cypridina Luciferin Analogues in Photodynamic Solutions (M Bancírová & I Šnyrychová)
• On the Role of Singlet-Oxygen Dimol Chemiluminescence in Dioxirane Reactions (W Adam et al.)
• On the CIEEL Mechanism of Triggerable Dioxetanes: Does the Electron Jump or Is It Charge Transfer? (W Adam & A V Trofimov)
• Single-Molecule Imaging of Protein in Living Cells by Pin-Fiber Video-Microscopy (Y Hirakawa et al.)
• Construction of a Novel Bioluminescence Bacterial Biosensor for Real-Time Monitoring of Cytotoxic Drugs Activity (H M Alloush et al.)
• The Chemiluminescent Measurement of the Black and Green Tea Antioxidant Capacity and the Comparison with Their Antimicrobial Activity (M Bancírová & I nyrychová)
• Use of Bioluminescent Salmonella typhimurium DT104 to Monitor Uptake and Intracellular Survival Within a Human Cell-Line (J E Angell et al.)
• Tandem Bioluminescent Enzyme Immunoassay for BDNF and NT-4/5 (S Akahane et al.)
• Use of the Peroxyoxalate Chemiluminescent Reaction in Acetone in the Presence of Nile Red for the Analysis of Glucose (P Castro-Hartmann et al.)
• A New Assay for Determining Pyrophosphate Using Pyruvate Phosphate Dikinase and Its Application to DNA Analysis (H Arakawa et al.)
• and other papers