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Biophotonic Activity and Transmission Mediated by Mutual Actions of Neurotransmitters are Involved in the Origin and Altered States of Consciousness

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31640034), the Sci-Tech Support Plan of Hubei Province, China (2014BEC086), and the Research Team Fund of the South-Central University for Nationalities, China (XTZ15014).

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  1. Weitai Chai and Zhengrong Han contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Wuhan Institute for Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Weitai Chai, Zhengrong Han, Zhuo Wang, Zehua Li, Fangyan Xiao, Yan Sun & Jiapei Dai

  2. Department of Neurobiology, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Weitai Chai, Zhengrong Han, Zhuo Wang, Zehua Li, Fangyan Xiao, Yan Sun & Jiapei Dai

  3. Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Yanfeng Dai

  4. State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Rendong Tang

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Chai, W., Han, Z., Wang, Z. et al. Biophotonic Activity and Transmission Mediated by Mutual Actions of Neurotransmitters are Involved in the Origin and Altered States of Consciousness. Neurosci. Bull. 34, 534–538 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-018-0215-9

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