THE TERAHERTZ FEATURES OF TRANSPORT OF NERVE IMPULSE ALONG THE NERVE SYSTEMS DRIVEN BY THE BIO-ENERGY IN LIFE SYSTEMS
PANG XIAO FENG *
Institute of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, Sichuan, P. R. China.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
We here research the features of transport of nerve impulse along the nerve fiber using modern theory of molecular
biology, in which we think this transport is due to the driving of bio-energy released from the hydrolyses reaction of
ATP molecules in the cells. Because ATP molecules are often attached on the protein molecules, where the energy
is transported along the protein molecules from the position of generation of hydrolyses reaction to the position used
in virtue of transport of the soliton formed by the excitons through the mechanism of self-trapping, where the exciton
is a quantum produced by the C=0 stretching (or amide-I ) vibrations. We studied and obtained the properties of
transport of bio-energy, which is carried by Pang’s soliton, along α-helical protein molecules and found further the
lifetimes of Pang’soliton, which is between 0.53×10-10S 0.65×10-10S at physiological temperature T=300K. In this
lifetime Pang’s soliton can travel over several hundreds of amino acid residues. This implies that Pang ‘s theory is a
relevant and correct model of bio-energy transport, then Pang’s soliton is a real carrier of bio-energy transport in
protein molecules. The bio-energy is transported into the nerve membrane to drive the works of sodium pump and
potassium pump on the surface of membrane of cells, which drive also the transfer of the action electric-potential or
the nerve impulse along the nerve membranes. We confirm that there is not the nerve impulse, or the action
electric- potential without the works of sodium pump and potassium pump, or the bio-energy. This means that the
nerve impulse can be transported along the nerve membrane, only if the bio-energy are absorbed really by the
sodium pump and potassium pump. In order to obtain a stable nerve impulse we must ensure that the times forming
it must be shorter than the lifetime of Pang’s soliton and its experimental values, or else, the nerve impulse is not
stable and is useless. Thus we can judge and affirm that the nerve impulse is a terahertz wave. Thus we can affirm
and verified that the nerve impulse can be transport along the nerve systems in the terahertz wave, instead the
millimeter wave. We here determinate and discuss further its features. This is first time to determinate the terahertz
features of transport of the nerve impulse along the nerve fibers in life systems, which will promotes the
development of the nerve science.
Keywords: Nerve impulse,, nerve membrane,, nerve fiber,, bio-energy, soliton lifetime, protein molecule, ATP molecule, energy transport, carrier,, terahertz wave,, feature.