A novel method of assessing carcinoma cell proliferation by biophoton emission

Cancer Letters

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 155-160

  Takeda, Motohiro ^a,b   Tanno, Yukina ^a   Kobayashi, Masaki ^a   Usa, Masashi ^a   Ohuchi, Noriaki ^b   Satomi, Susumu ^b   Inaba, Humio ^a,c  

^a Biophotonics Info Laboratories   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cell proliferation; TE9; Ultraweak biophoton emission; Ultraweak chemiluminescence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPHOTON EMISSION; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

CARCINOMA; CELL DIVISION; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PHOTONS;

EID: 0032523871     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(98)00064-0     Document Type: Article

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