Light-stimulated ultraweak photon reemission of human amnion cells and wish cells
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Vol. 13 (1) , 55-63
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02797365
Abstract
Photon reemission in the ultraweak intensity range that is observed after irradiation of cell suspensions with light, reveals characteristic differences between normal human amnion cells and transformed wish cells from the same parental tissue. The reemission kinetics, approximated best by a hyperbolical process, were studied as a function of cell density, showing that: malignant Wish cells have a photon storage capacity that is not improved by increasing the cell density; and that normal amnion cells exhibit a photon storage capacity that strongly increases with increasing cell density. The interpretation of this effect and the nature of the emitter are discussed.Keywords
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