What is it about?
Cells within the body will grow in number with time, known as cell proliferation. This process is regulated by internal signals, and this paper explores how those signals can be stimulated using near infra-red laser light.
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Why is it important?
Research into using low levels of laser light therapy (LLLT) is also known as photo biostimulation. Can this technique be used to influence cells, specifically if they have become damaged. DNA damage is influential on malignancy. Can cells with DNA damaged by exposure to sunlight be repaired and then proliferate normally.
Perspectives
This is an exciting area for research in the global fight to reduce malignancy. Whilst the research area is not new, it is has yet to be fully understood. In the long term this may be applied to treat cell cultures that can be replaced back into the body as part of the repair process.
David Jenkins
University of Plymouth
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This page is a summary of: The photo-stimulatory effect of low level laser therapy on the proliferation rate of human monocytic leukaemia cells , IET Nanobiotechnology, November 2017, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET),
DOI: 10.1049/iet-nbt.2017.0035.
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