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 invivo brain biophoton imaging. In this study, the
ultraweak biophoton imaging system (UBIS) was employed to carry out an invivo 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 invivo 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.
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