Salari V, Valian H, Bassereh H, Bókkon I, Barkhordari A
1 Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran.
2 School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran 19395-5531, Iran.
J Integr Neurosci. 2015 Sep;14(3):419-29. doi: 10.1142/S0219635215300012. Epub 2015 Sep 4.
Besides the low-frequency electromagnetic body-processes measurable through the electroencephalography (EEG), electrocardiography (ECG), etc. there are processes that do not need external excitation, emitting light within or close to the visible spectra. Such ultraweak photon emission (UPE), also named biophoton emission, reflects the cellular (and body) oxidative status. Recently, a growing body of evidence shows that UPE may play an important role in the basic functioning of living cells. Moreover, interesting evidences are beginning to emerge that UPE may well play an important role in neuronal functions. In fact, biophotons are byproducts in cellular metabolism and produce false signals (e.g., retinal discrete dark noise) but on the other side neurons contain many light sensitive molecules that makes it hard to imagine how they might not be influenced by UPE, and thus UPE may carry informational contents. Here, we investigate UPE in the brain from different points of view such as experimental evidences, theoretical modeling, and physiological significance.
除了可通过脑电图（EEG）、心电图（ECG）等测量的低频电磁身体过程外，还有一些过程无需外部激发，能在可见光谱范围内或附近发光。这种超微弱光子发射（UPE），也称为生物光子发射，反映了细胞（和身体）的氧化状态。最近，越来越多的证据表明，UPE可能在活细胞的基本功能中发挥重要作用。此外，有趣的证据开始出现，表明UPE很可能在神经元功能中发挥重要作用。事实上，生物光子是细胞代谢的副产品，并产生虚假信号（例如视网膜离散暗噪声），但另一方面，神经元含有许多光敏感分子，很难想象它们不会受到UPE的影响，因此UPE可能携带信息内容。在这里，我们从不同角度研究大脑中的UPE，如实验证据、理论建模和生理意义。
