[method used to study lateral movements of membrane proteins and lipids; a small area of a cell membrane is bleached by laser light and the amount of time necessary for unbleached fluorescent marker tagged proteins to diffuse back into the bleached site is a measurement of the cell membrane's fluidity. ( CSP )]
UMLS (CSP) C1138405FRAP
FRAP (fluorescence recovery after photobleaching)
Relation/PAR: fluorimetry