ArticleCell communication and signaling : CCS2013
Cell-to-cell signaling through light: just a ghost of chance?
Article in Cell communication and signaling : CCS, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Oxidative species-induced excitonic transport in tubulin aromatic networks: Potential implications for neurodegenerative disease.Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Despite the large number of reports attributing the signaling between detached cell cultures to the electromagnetic phenomena, almost no report so far included a rigorous analysis of the possibility of such signaling.In this paper, we examine the physical feasibility of the electromagnetic communication between cells, especially through light, with regard to the ambient noise illumination. We compare theoretically attainable parameters of communication with experimentally obtained data of the photon emission from cells without a specially pronounced ability of bioluminescence.We show that the weak intensity of the emission together with an unfavorable signal-to-noise ratio, which is typical for natural conditions, represent an important obstacle to the signal detection by cells.
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