title: Biophoton research in blood reveals its holistic properties.
abstract: Monitoring of spontaneous and luminophore amplified photon emission (PE) from non-diluted human blood under resting conditions and artificially induced immune reaction revealed that blood is a continuous source of biophotons indicating that it persists in electronically excited state. This state is pumped through generation of electron excitation produced in reactive oxygen species (ROS) reactions. Excited state of blood and of neutrophil suspensions (primary sources of ROS in blood) is an oscillatory one suggesting of interaction between individual sources of electron excitation. Excited state of blood is extremely sensitive to the tiniest fluctuations of external photonic fields but resistant to temperature variations as reflected in hysteresis of PE in response to temperature variations. These data suggest that blood is a highly cooperative non-equilibrium and non-linear system, whose components unceasingly interact in time and space. At least in part this property is provided by the ability of blood to store energy of electron excitation that is produced in course of its own normal metabolism. From a practical point of view analysis of these qualities of blood may be a basement of new approach to diagnostic procedures.
authors.affiliation: International Institute of Biophysics, Neuss, FRG. vvl@soil.msu.ru
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Voeikov
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Asfaramov
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Bouravleva
authors.forename: C N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Novikov
authors.forename: N D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Vilenskaya
mesh_terms: D001769:Blood; D017785:Photons; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species
chemical_list: D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species