Photon emission from melanoma cells during brief stimulation by patterned magnetic fields: is the source coupled to rotational diffusion within the membrane?

• Published in: General physiology and biophysics 2014, Vol.33 (1), p.63-73
• Main Authors: Dotta, Blake T, Lafrenie, Robert M, Karbowski, Lukasz M, Persinger, Michael A
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Animals; Lipids - chemistry; Magnetic Fields; Magnetics; Melanoma - diagnosis; Melanoma - pathology; Melanoma, Experimental - diagnosis; Melanoma, Experimental - pathology; Mice; Photochemistry - methods; Photons; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Software; Spectrophotometry - methods; Time Factors
• ISSN: 0231-5882
• DOI: 10.4149/gpb_2013066

If parameters for lateral diffusion of lipids within membranes are macroscopic metaphors of the angular magnetic moment of the Bohr magneton then the energy emission should be within the visible wavelength for applied ~1 µT magnetic fields. Single or paired digital photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) were placed near dishes of ~1 million B16 mouse melanoma cells that had been removed from incubation. In very dark conditions (10(-11) W/m(2)) different averaged (RMS) intensities between 5 nT and 3.5 µT were applied randomly in 4 min increments. Numbers of photons were recorded directly over or beside the cell dishes by PMTs placed in pairs within various planes. Spectral analyses were completed for photon power density. The peak photon emissions occurred around 1 µT as predicted by the equation. Spectra analyses showed reliable discrete peaks between 0.9 and 1.8 µT but not for lesser or greater intensities; these peak frequencies corresponded to the energy difference of the orbital-spin magnetic moment of the electron within the applied range of magnetic field intensities and the standard solution for Rydberg atoms. Numbers of photons from cooling cells can be modified by applying specific intensities of temporally patterned magnetic fields. There may be a type of "cellular" magnetic moment that, when stimulated by intensity-tuned magnetic fields, results in photon emissions whose peak frequencies reflect predicted energies for fundamental orbital/spin properties of the electron and atomic aggregates with large principal quantum numbers.