Photon emission during cleavage of frog eggs.
Emission of light was detected from the surface of embryos of the frog, Rana japonica, during early cleavage by a photon counting and an "analog separation (integrated photons) method". The light-emission from an egg was more than 5.6 x 10(-19) W at the beginning of the first cleavage.
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Deparment of Physiology, School of Medicine, Kitasato University, Kanagawa, Japan.
Ryuzaki
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D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division; D004625:Embryo, Nonmammalian / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005306:Fertilization; D008027:Light; D008297:Male; D009865:Oocytes / Q000502:physiology*; D011827:Radiation; D011898:Ranidae