Triiodothyronine, diluted according homeopathic techniques, modifies the programmed cell death of tadpole tail?s explants / Triiodothyronine, diluted according homeopathic techniques, modifies the programmed cell death of tadpole tail?s explants

ABSTRACT

High Dilution is a solution beyond the Avogadro limits that, in the dependence of the applied succussion elicits a suppressive or a stimulant effect on a living cell, with a consequent generation of an oscillatory doseeffect curve. According to Bonamin et al. [1], ?Perhaps, the most enigmatic feature regarding the properties of high dilutions is the non-linearity of their effects. In several studies employing in vivo and ex vivo models, especially involving iso-endopathy, an oscillatory potency-effect curve has appeared. The first observations were initially considered as artifacts, but the repetition of this pattern in different studies involving completely different experimental models, in times and places equally different, points out to the existence of a property intrinsic to dynamized systems.? The entire process of anuran amphibian metamorphosis is under thyroid hormones control, included the complete resorption of the tadpole tail. In the present study, we had successfully established a protocol model to culture Rana catesbeiana tadpoles? tail tips in vitro. A random and blind study was performed, with the intent to prove that T3 5.10-24 M (10 cH) modifies the apoptosis induction of T3 100 nM in explants of Rana catesbeiana tadpoles? tail. 60 explants were distributed in three ways Group A without T3 action, at pharmacological and HD dose; Group B (test) under the action of T3 100 nM and treated with T3 10 cH (HD); Group C (control) under the action of T3 100 nM and treated with ethanol 70% unsuccussed. After 96 hours of tissue culture, the mean of initial and final area (1.05 vs. 0.98 cm2) and apoptotic index of the explants from Group A were with minimal difference range and for this reason it wasn?t included in the statistical study. In order to identify significant differences in the area and in the apoptotic index of the remainder explants of the 2 groups, B (test) and C (control), we used a student t-test. However, the mean initial and final explants? area from test and control groups were respectively 1.09 vs. 0.22 cm and 1.00 cm vs.0.24 cm, with a mean reduction of 0.87 cm2 and 0.76 cm2, but this difference didn?t achieve statistical significance (p>0.05). In contrast, apoptosis index was significantly higher in test than in control group 11.7 vs. 7.9 (p<0.05), with is confirmed at the table 1.