TITLE:
In Vivo Imaging of Biophoton Emission in the Whole Brain of Mice
AUTHORS:
Jinzhong Li, Chengming Xia, Yaping Wang, Linhua Chen, Jiapei Dai
KEYWORDS:
Neural Information Transmission, Biophoton, UBIS, In Vivo Biophoton Imaging Technology
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Science,
Vol.13 No.9,
September
15,
2021
ABSTRACT: In
recent years, studies have demonstrated that biophoton is a medium for the
transmission and processing of neural information. However, such studies were
mainly carried out by using brain slices combined with biophoton imaging
technology, while there are few reports on in vivo brain biophoton imaging. In this study, the
ultraweak biophoton imaging system (UBIS) was employed to carry out an in vivo biophoton imaging for
the whole brain of mice. It was found that the biophoton emission of whole
brain in the slightly anesthetized mice was significantly
higher than that of the background, suggesting that the brain of living mouse
emits a certain intensity of stable biophotons. The biophoton imaging established
in this study for the in vivo mouse whole brain may provide a new technical method for further study of the
relationship between the biophoton and brain functions, and give new ideas for
developing diagnostic method of neuropsychiatric diseases.