“…Because of the negative membrane potential, mitochondria accumulate lipophilic cations and several fluorescent probes have been developed to monitor mitochondrial function in living cells (Buravkov, Pogodina, & Buravkova, 2014;Cottet-Rousselle, Ronot, Leverve, & Mayol, 2011;Johnson, Walsh, Bockus, & Chen, 1981;Niżański, Partyka, & Rijsselaere, 2012;Smiley et al, 1991). However, fluorescence emitted by these conventional mitochondrial markers is often susceptible to photobleaching during microscopic examination and the marker exhibit photoinduced toxicity (Chen, 1989).…”