Sunday, 3 December 2006

Does bioluminescence occur in humans too?

From the article you linked:




virtually all living organisms emit extremely weak light, spontaneously without external photoexcitation. This biophoton emission is categorized in different phenomena of light emission from bioluminescence, and is believed to be a by-product of biochemical reactions in which excited molecules are produced from bioenergetic processes that involves active oxygen species




They reference these two works. The first is a 1988 review from Popp et al. (1988):



Biophoton emission - Experientia 44:543–600. (sorry, I cannot find the link to a full text...)



Fritz-Albert Popp is the biophysicist who first developed the biophoton theory.



The second work they reference is by the same first author:



In vivo imaging of spontaneous ultraweak photon emission from a rat's brain correlated with cerebral energy metabolism and oxidative stress. - Kobayashi M, et al.



Finally, a search in Pubmed reveals various other articles by different authors studying different species.

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