Table 1.
Mean, standard deviation, and coefficient of determination of the characteristic times derived from the monoexponential, tdm (Equation 5) and bi-exponential, tdf and tds (Equation 4) fits of the decaying part of the fluorescence, (Equation 1), observed in oocytes for different UV flash durations.
| Pulse number and UV flash duration [s] |
Mono-exponential fit | Bi-exponential fit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tdm[s] | SD[s] | R2 | tdf[s] | SD[s] | tds[s] | SD[s] | R2 | |
| #1, 11.2 | 20.4 | 6.5 | 0.9942 | 7.3 | 5.2 | 23.8 | 8.9 | 0.9976 |
| #1, 16.8 | — | 5.5 | 0.7 | 34.5 | 6.4 | 0.9986 | ||
| #1, 28 | 27 | 2.5 | 0.9922 | 13.8 | 7.8 | 49.8 | 32.4 | 0.9985 |
| #1, 56 | 52.4 | 5.7 | 0.9779 | 20.1 | 4.9 | 133.7 | 64.7 | 0.9972 |
| #2, 11.2 | 20.6 | 6.8 | 0.9903 | — | ||||
| #2, 16.8 | — | 5.1 | 1.2 | 41.7 | 8.5 | 0.9970 | ||
| #2, 28 | 28.8 | 2.5 | 0.9909 | 11.5 | 7.8 | 37.2 | 14.5 | 0.9981 |
| #2, 56 | 71.1 | 9.8 | 0.9854 | — | ||||
The number of analyzed regions was n = 20 for the 16.8 s flash duration and n = 15 for the rest. See main text for other details.