the two stable isotopes of hydrogen, protium (1h) and deuterium (2h) differ in their physicochemical nature. deuterium-depleted water (ddw) significantly inhibited the growth rate of different tumor cell lines in culture media and xenotransplanted mda-mb-231, mcf-7 human breast adenocarcinomas and pc-3 human prostate tumors in vivo. the apoptosis-triggering effect of ddw was demonstrated both i...

abstract this study was carried out to investigate the hepatoprotective effect of deuterium depleted water with satureja rechingeri essential oil on liver damage. for this purpose, the adult male rats were divided into 16 groups. the negative control group used tap water in 14 days following dmso i.p injection at day 15th. the treatment group with acetaminophen received tap water in 14 days fol...

Environmental factors can significantly affect disease prevalence, including neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression. The ratio of deuterium to protium in water shows substantial geographical variation, which could affect disease susceptibility. Thus the link between deuterium content of water and depression was investigated, both epidemiologically, and in a mouse model of chronic mild st...

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the reaction of organism of laboratory animals on deuterium-depleted drinking diet. To assess the cell energy metabolism, the effect of a liquid medium with different deuterium contents on isolated liver mitochondria of random bred rats and Wistar rats was studied. Methods: This experimental study on the effect of deuterium-depleted drinking water (DDW) ...

Background: Although advances in cancer therapy continue to develop, the overall survival rate is poor for some cancer cases. The search for a new adjuvant strategy is the focus of cancer treatment. There is some evidence suggesting a change in the mechanism of cell function by a change in the content of deuterium in the medium. So, the aim of this study was to investigate the ...

BACKGROUND The anomalous properties of water have been of great interest for generations of scientists. However the impact of small amount of deuterium content which is always present in water has never been explored before. For the first time the fundamental properties of deuterium depleted (light) water at 4°C and 20°C are here presented. RESULTS The obtained results show the important role...

The role of naturally occurring D in living organisms has been examined by using deuterium-depleted water (30-40 ppm D) instead of water containing the natural abundance of D (150 ppm). The deuterium-depleted water significantly decreased the growth rate of the L929 fibroblast cell line, and also inhibited the tumor growth in xenotransplanted mice. Eighty days after transplantation in 10 (59%) ...

Measurements of the isotopic composition of stratospheric water by the ATMOS instrument are used to infer the convective history of stratospheric air. The average water vapor entering the stratosphere is found to be highly depleted of deuterium, with 6Dw of670 + 80 (67% deuterium loss). Model calculations predict, however, that under conditions of thermodynamic equilibrium, dehydration to strat...

Deuterium to hydrogen ratios of 14 plant species from a salt marsh and lagoon were 55 per thousand depleted in deuterium relative to the environmental water. Carbon tetrachloride-extractable material from these plants was another 92 per thousand depleted in deuterium. This gave a fractionation factor from water to CCl(4) extract of 1.147. This over-all fractionation was remarkably constant for ...