Some Investigations with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance on Water Associated with the Vaginal Cells*

E Odeblad

doi:10.3109/00016346009155732

Some Investigations with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance on Water Associated with the Vaginal Cells*

Odeblad E

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 39(4), 528-539, 1960

DOI 10.3109/00016346009155732

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Vaginal cell water tended to shift across the cycle in NMR study

Water around vaginal cells tended to shift through the menstrual cycle in a 1960 lab study using nuclear magnetic resonance. The study tracked samples from virgins who appeared healthy across 28 cycles. Around mid-cycle the signal sometimes split in two. At mid-cycle the author thinks the parts probably reflect water outside the cells and water inside them.

Key Findings

Spectra were followed more or less completely during 28 menstrual cycles.
The water signal sat at about -0.10 ppm after menstruation and tended to move to about +0.02 ppm by the middle of the luteal phase.
T2 began the cycle at about 0.03 sec and tended to rise to about 0.10 sec by the middle of the luteal phase.
Signal areas stayed nearly constant across the cycle, at about 80 percent of the area expected for a water signal.
Around mid-cycle the signal sometimes split into two components, usually resolved for only a few days, at about -0.2 and +0.4 ppm from water.

Interpretation

The work is a small laboratory physics study from 1960. The paper reports measurements from apparently healthy women and gives no count of the women. Samples came from virgins only, so the findings describe that group. Cycle phase was judged from temperature charts, clinical findings, cervical mucus properties and smears. The paper gives no fertility, conception or disease results. The author calls the two-component explanation probable and likely, so outside and inside cell water remains his reading of the spectra.

RRM Context

The study dated each sample with basal body temperature charts and cervical mucus properties. Fertility awareness methods record the same signs. The results are consistent with the restorative reproductive medicine principle that the cycle leaves physical signs in the body. The work is laboratory physics and tests no charting method.

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DOI 10.3109/00016346009155732 10.3109/00016346009155732 Odeblad et al. 1960, Odeblad 1960

Some Investigations with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance on Water Associated with the Vaginal Cells*

Vaginal cell water tended to shift across the cycle in NMR study

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