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The mechanism of intermolecular energy transmission and perception of ultraweak actions by chemical and biological systems

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A novel concept of intermolecular energy transfer and reception of the ultralow action in living systems is proposed. The concept is based on the methods of nonlinear mathematical physics used in description of energy movement along molecular chains and on quantum mechanical ideas concerning signal formation in anisotropic media. A concept of a molecular cell as an indivisible structural unit and a constituent of a biological (chemical) system has been put forward and substantiated, which manifests collective features of the unity of molecules, physical fields, and energetically strained bound water media in processes of energy transfer and reception. Both intermolecular energy transfer and amplification of the ultralow action has been shown to be the components of a unified energy process in a living system, and the physical basis of both processes is the unity of molecules and water-field media in a molecular cell.

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Original Russian Text © L.N. Gall, N.R. Gall, 2009, published in Biofizika, 2009, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 563–574.

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Gall, L.N., Gall, N.R. The mechanism of intermolecular energy transmission and perception of ultraweak actions by chemical and biological systems. BIOPHYSICS 54, 396–405 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350909030257

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