Healthy adults: In a 1981 study, healthy adults received 1 gram of vitamin C intravenously. One hour later, the neutrophil motility (how fast your white blood cells can move) and leukocyte transformation in the subjects' blood had increased significantly.
THE REACTIONS OF EXPERIMENT 35 Refer to pages 289 - 290 of your textbook.It is clear now how the oxidation-reduction scheme of p. 289 is being used here to illustrate the concept experimentally.An alcohol (borneol) is being oxidized into a ketone (camphor).
Like borneol, camphor has been used in the Orient as an antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative, cardiac stimulant, respiratory aid, and anthelmintic. The uses of camphor, as understood in the U.S., are quite similar to those for borneol used in China. These uses were outlined in the Eclectic Materia Medica in 1922 (12). Both the effects of low doses (therapeutic levels) and high doses (toxic levels) were depicted.