Chemiexcitation and Its Implications for Disease.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2018.04.004
Abstract: Quantum mechanics rarely extends to molecular medicine. Recently, the pigment melanin was found to be susceptible to chemiexcitation, in which an electron is chemically excited to a high-energy molecular orbital. In invertebrates, chemiexcitation causes bioluminescence;… read more here.
Keywords: medicine; implications disease; chemiexcitation; melanin ... See more keywords