INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF BIOPHYSICS
Conference
on Biophotons 1999
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CARCINOGENESIS IN TERMS OF BIOPHOTONS
Fritz-Albert Popp
International Institute of Biophysics, Ehemalige Raketenstation,
Kapellener Straße D-41472 Neuss
Fax: 02182 825132, E-mail: iib@lifescientists.de
About 25 years ago the author found significant correlations between
transition momenta and energy levels of the lowest singlet - and triplet
states of 37 polycyclic hydrocarbons (like Benzo(a)pyren and Benzo(e)pyren)
and their carcinogenic activity [1,2]. Based on this connection he proposed
that carcinogenic substances absorb light within the tissues which usually
works for cell growth regulation and photorepair [1,2,3], disturbing thus
the growth rate control. Up to now he maintains this proposal, putting
into question the hypothesis that metabolism of the compounds is a necessary
step of their activation. Just opposite, his statement of metabolic activity
for inactivating carcinogenic risk has never been disproved.
With increasing insight into the correlations between malignant cell
growth and biophoton emission and delayed luminescence [4-6], a theory
could be developed where the basic regulatory function of cell growth and
differentiation is the degree of coherence of the biophoton field within
the organism under investigation [7.8]. Actually, it turns out that a nonlinear
differential equation that describes quantitatively the growth rate in
normal tissues explains tumor growth as well, as soon as the term describing
the mean value of the coherence time within the tissue drops down to a
definite threshold. This relation can become subject of examination by
means of biophoton measurements.
The basic mechanism behind this dependence may be traced back to a negative
feed back loop between the occupation probability of excited states of
DNA and the coherence of the biophoton field.
References:
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F.A.Popp: Z.Naturforsch.27b, 850, 1972.
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F.A.Popp: Arch. Geschwulstforsch. 44, 295, 1974.
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F.A.Popp: Biophotonen. Schriftenreihe Krebsgeschehen. Verlag für Medizin,
Heidelberg 1976.
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D.Schamhart and R.van Wijk: In: Photon emission from biological systems
(Jezowska-Trebiakowska et.al.eds.), World Scientific, Singapore 1987, 137.
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W. Scholz et.al.: Cell Biophysics 13 (1988), 198.
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F. Musumeci et.al.: In: Recent Advances in Biophoton Research and its Applications.
(F.A.Popp et.al., eds.) World Scientific, Singapore 1992.
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F.A.Popp et.al (eds.), Electromagnetic Bio-Information. Urban & Schwarzenberg,
Munich 1979.
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F.A.Popp: In: Recent Advances in Biophoton Research and its Applications
(F.A.Popp et al., eds.). World Scientific. Singapore 1992, 371.
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Institute of Biophysics 2001 E-mail: iib@lifescientists.de
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