Recently the use of high dose (megadose) of vitamin C in the medical profession has become popular for the treatment of several disease, namely cancers, atherosclerosis, influenza, infectious diseases, stress and aging process. However, there is still disagreement on the usefullness of this vitamin. Several studies reported about the benefits of vitamin C for certain diseases, whereas others cl…
Chronic renal failure is still the problem in the world. The problem in the developed countries is not similar to the developing countries like Indonesia. There are numbers of chronic renal failure patients found in Indonesia especially in Jakarta recently. Lots of factors caused this chronic renal failure. Haemodialysis/HD is still one of the best treatments to these patients besides kidney tr…
We have reported previously that injection of vitamin A could increases the blood antibody titers in rats immunized with sheep red blood cells (SRBC). Moreover, the titres remained at a high level during the period 8 weeks of observation. In the following study, we have observed the effect of oral administration of vitamin A on antibody formation in rats immunized with SRBC. A number of male Wi…