title: Spectroscopic evidence for strong oscillating and static dielectric polarizations in malignant cells.
abstract: Analysis of splitting and shifting of malignant cell (mammary carcinoma and virally transformed cells) Raman and microwave spectral lines suggests that the Raman line splittings are due to non-linear second-order coupling of a coherently excited optical polarization wave with other polarization modes within these malignant cells. The microwave splittings are believed due to the non-linear second-order coupling effects of a lower frequency acoustic wave. The spectral line shiftings are believed indicative of a strong static dielectric polarization (ferroelectric state) of the cells.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006224:Cricetinae; D004594:Electrophysiology; D006801:Humans; D008872:Microwaves; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman