Emission of mitochondrial biophotons and their effect on electrical activity of membrane via microtubules

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-88

  Rahnama, Majid ^a,b,c   Tuszynski, Jack A ^d,e   BÓkkon, István ^f   Cifra, Michal ^g,h   Sardar, Peyman ^a   Salari, Vahid ^a,b,c  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

^b KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Afzal Research Institute   (Iran)

^d CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^g INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^h CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

coherence; fluctuation function; microtubule (MT); Mitochondrial biophoton

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BIOPHOTON; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STRUCTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROTUBULE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTON; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; MITOCHONDRIA; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79952904960     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219635211002622     Document Type: Article

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