Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biochemical, biological, and biophysical background -- Mitochondria and energy metabolism : networks, mechanisms and control / Ilmo Hassinen -- Intracellular autofluorescence species : structure, spectroscopy, and photophysics / Nobuhiro Ohta and Takakazu Nakabayashi -- Autofluorescence imaging techniques : fundamentals and applications -- One-photon autofluorescence microscopy / Narasimhan Rajaram and Nirmala Ramanujam -- Autofluorescence lifetime imaging / Michael G. Nichols, Kristina Ward, Lyandysha V. Zholudeva, Heather Jensen Smith and Richard Hallworth -- Polarization imaging of cellular autofluorescence / Harshad D. Vishwasrao, Qianru Yu, Kuravi Hwawasam, and Ahmed A. Heikal -- Real-time in vivo monitoring of cellular energy metabolism / Avraham Mayevsky and Efrat Barbiro-Michaely -- Tryptophan as an alternative biomarker for cellular energy metabolism / Vinod Jyothikumar, Yuansheng Sun, and Ammasi Periasamy -- Alternative approaches to optical sensing of the redox state / Yi Yang -- Natural biomarkers for biochemical and biological studies -- Spatiotemporal detection of NADH-linked enzyme activities / V. Krishnan Ramanujan -- NAD(P)H and FAD as biomarkers for programmed cell death / Hsing-wen Wang -- Monitoring stem cell differentiation in engineered tissues / Kyle P. Quinn and Irene Georgakoudi -- Autofluorescence as a diagnostic tool in medicine and health -- Autofluorescence-assisted examination of cardiovascular system physiology and pathology / Alzbeta Chorvatova -- Autofluorescence perspectives of cancer diagnostics / Lin Z. Li and Nannan Sun -- Dynamic imaging of intracellular coenzyme autofluorescence in intact pancreatic islets / Alan K. Lam and Jonathan V. Rocheleau -- Autofluorescence diagnostics of ophthalmic diseases / Dietrich Schweitzer -- Pathogen effects on energy metabolism in host cells / Márta Szaszák and Jan Rupp.