Palatine Tonsil’s Reaction on Drinking Water Quality as A New Method for Estimating People Health

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Authors: Alexander Kuznetsov
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Abstract

It is well known that monitoring the quality of drinking water is necessary in countries with high and low socio-economic status. There are problems associated with the implementation of methods for studying the state of human health in vivo, depending on the quality of drinking water. The purpose of the article is to propose a new method for assessing the immune response of people to the use of water of different quality and radon waters in vivo. The essence of the method is the analysis of smears from the palatine tonsils (PT) of people taken by harmless and inexpensive scraping from the surface of PT. Scraping is a unique opportunity to obtain samples of lymphoid tissue/immune system (lymphocytes, leukocytes, reticular cells and several erythrocytes), connective tissue and epithelium in healthy and sick people. The obtained PT samples will be studied by various methods: cytological, biochemical, histochemical, immunohistochemical, proteomics, genetic analysis, single cell analysis, mathematical modeling. The analysis of the database of the obtained data will help to draw a conclusion about the degree of changes in the immunity of people who use water of different quality, the risk to their health and suggest appropriate preventive risk measures.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Public Health and Environmental Issues Immunotoxicology and immune responses Water Treatment and Disinfection

Publication details

Volume
4
Issue
1
Publication date
1 January 2026