Like in oxygen or ozone therapy?
Charles
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> From: Jean-Pierre Lentin [mailto:lentin@imaginet.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 11:47 AM
> To: KeelyNet@DallasTexas.net
> Subject: Microbes electrocuted by white cells !
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> Hi all ! I just read this fascinating short news story in the
> new issue of
> French monthly magazine "Science & Vie". Here is a translation :
>
> "White cells (leucocytes) kill bacteria and pathogenic fungus by
> electrocuting them. Discovered by Jacques Schrenzel and Karl
> Heinz Krause
> (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland), this defence mechanism is
> triggered as soon as receptors of the white cell detect the microbe's
> presence. This signal activates an enzymatic system on the leucocyte's
> membrane, composed of a "sleeping" enzyme (NADPH oxydase) and
> co-enzyme
> (NADPH). The reaction begins by the enzyme "waking up",
> receiving electrons
> from its co-enzyme, and transporting them through the
> membrane. Ejected out
> of the white cell, this electronic flux is focused towards
> the bacteria by
> means of oxygen molecules. And the microbe dies. This
> discovery might open
> new lines of research on immunity deficiencies in patients
> who are deprived
> of this enzymatic system.".
>
> Sorry, no comment here. I'm still in shock !
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