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Effect of high-dilution quinones on O2 uptake by peripheral blood lymphocytes: a polarographic study
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Christopher M A Conners, Roger W Coghill,
11/03/2005
Coghill Research Laboratories, Lower Race, Pontypool, Torfaen, Wales NP4 5UH. Tel: 01495 752122.
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Abstract:
This investigation examines whether the addition of parabenzoquinone in high dilution is able to correct cultured aberrant lymphocyte metabolism. Aberrant cells show less oxygen uptake than normal cells. It is hypothesized that the addition of the quinone to a solution of aberrant lymphocytes will boost their immune response and return them to normal metabolism. This reaction would result in an increase in the rate of oxygen uptake within the solution that can be monitored polarographically. There is evidence in the results to show a variation in O2 uptake between the treated and the control solutions showing a difference in their standard deviations approaching significance (p<0.08).
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Keywords:
Quinone, lymphocyte, oxygen, polarographic
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