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Dynamics of Delayed Luminescence in Tubulin and Microtubule Constructs: an Insight into Collective Radiative Effects

Zoghi, M.; Batarseh, M.; Wu, R.; Tuszynski, J. A.; Dogariu, A. · 2025

AI-verified citationSRC-ZOGHI-2025
identifier / locator
Optica Biophotonics Congress 2025, paper DTu1A.5. DOI: 10.1364/boda.2025.dtu1a.5
url
https://doi.org/10.1364/boda.2025.dtu1a.5
verification note
Bibliographic record and abstract verified via the Crossref API (2026-08-22 run). CORRECTION RECORDED: the accessible abstract reads in full — "We report, for the first time, measurements of delayed luminescence on tubulin constructs. The results demonstrate the role of mesoscopic structure on emission strength and decay dynamics, which provides a new perspective on radiative phenomena." It says nothing about anesthetics. Eugene's primer states that "anesthetics shorten this delayed luminescence time, while structurally similar non-anesthetics do not"; that claim is NOT supported by any text this import could verify, and is not carried as evidence here.
reliability notes
  • Conference proceedings abstract, not a peer-reviewed full paper. Weakest source in this case.
  • Included specifically so the correction above is on the record rather than silently dropped.

Evidence drawn from this source

Context· weakORCH-E006

Delayed luminescence measured in tubulin constructs — but with no anesthetic finding

what the source states
The abstract reads in full: "We report, for the first time, measurements of delayed luminescence on tubulin constructs. The results demonstrate the role of mesoscopic structure on emission strength and decay dynamics, which provides a new perspective on radiative phenomena." It makes no mention of anesthetics or of any anesthetic comparison.
what we infer
Recorded primarily as a correction. Eugene's primer states that "anesthetics shorten this delayed luminescence time, while structurally similar non-anesthetics do not" and attributes that to this work; no text available to this import supports it, and the accessible abstract is explicitly about mesoscopic structure rather than pharmacology. If such a result exists it is in a fuller presentation this project has not seen, and it should not be counted until it is. On its own terms the abstract is mild support for structure-dependent collective radiative behavior, which is ORCH-C013 territory — hence direction "context" rather than "supports" for any anesthesia claim.
limitations
  • Conference proceedings abstract, not a peer-reviewed full paper; weakest source in the case.
  • The anesthetic claim attributed to this work in the case editor's own primer is unsupported by any text this import could verify.
  • Delayed luminescence is a bulk optical observable and not a coherence measure.
Zoghi, M. (2025)AI-verified citationORCH-C013