2024
Chemiexcitation in preventing macular degeneration
Brash D, Gaillard E. Chemiexcitation in preventing macular degeneration. Frontiers In Photonics 2024, 5: 1451857. DOI: 10.3389/fphot.2024.1451857.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchExcited statesGround-state chemical reactionsExcited-state wavefunctionsHigh-energy statesQuantum biologyMagnetic fieldEnergy statesChemiexcitation processEnergy barrierChemiexcitationElectronReaction productsChemical reactionsWavefunctionsEnergyQuantumStateTransient mixingReactionIntermediate moleculesMoleculesGroundField
2023
Chemiexcitation: Mammalian Photochemistry in the Dark†
Brash D, Goncalves L. Chemiexcitation: Mammalian Photochemistry in the Dark†. Photochemistry And Photobiology 2023, 99: 251-276. PMID: 36681894, PMCID: PMC10065968, DOI: 10.1111/php.13781.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExcited statesMammalian cellsCyclobutane pyrimidine dimersEvolutionary selectionBond rearrangementUnoccupied orbitalsGround stateReaction productsPyrimidine dimersChemiexcitationRecent findingsBiologyPathogenic eventsRadicalsUltraviolet lightMoleculesDrug-induced deafnessPotential pathogenesisCellsMelaninAchilles heelMammalsBiomoleculesPhotochemistryDNA