An evaluation of the effect of sodium bicarbonate-chloride mineral water on the rat immune system
Dolgushin, I.I.; Kolesnikov, O.L.; Selianina, G.A.; Mezentseva, E.A.; Vlasov, A.A.
Voprosy Kurortologii Fizioterapii i Lechebnoi Fizicheskoi Kultury 4: 13-14
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8787 PMID: 11008565 Document Number: 524592
Mineral water Uralochka tried in rats is obtained from the spring in the territory of the sanatorium Ural (Chelyabinsk Province). The mineral water contains chloride, hydrocarbonate ions and sodium cations, mineralization is 4.13 g/dm3. A 15-day course of Uralochka drinking did not influence much reaction of delayed hypersensitivity, but increased the absolute number of antibody-forming cells by 95.86%, raised the ability of peritoneal macrophages to absorb latex particles. Thus, mineral water Uralochka can raise intensity of humoral immune response and the ability of macrophages for phagocytosis of the latex particles. Phagocytosis activity and intensity increased by 48.27 and 62.13%, respectively.