Abstract
The author determined Vitamin C content in bilateral almonds of 40 children ranging 5 to 15 years of age by Hydrazine method and investigated histopathologically their almonds. The auther, also, conducted various clinical examination on CRP (reduced and oxidized vitamin C), ASLO titer, leucocyte count, etc., and obtained following results :
1) Total Vitamin C content in palatal almond indicated 768.6 μg/g in maximum and 101.0μg/g in minimum with large personal variation. Its mean was 338.4+165.9μg/g.
2) Vitamin C content in palatal almond indicated 80% of reduced-type with less oxidized-type.
3) With special consideration upon histologically reactive focus in crypt and follicle, the author classified its degree into three groups such as ‘slight’, ‘moderate’ and ‘high’, in which vitamin C content were 260.5 μg/g, 308.5 μg/g and 366.9 μg/g respectively. It was noted that vitamin C content increased in parallel with the degree of histologically reactive focus.
4) In the results of clinical test, no siginificant relations among CRP, leucocyte number and vitamin C content in palatal almond were noted, while it was noticed that both the total vitamin C content and oxidized-type vitamin C decreased in inverse propotion to increase in ASL values.
5) The difference in vitamin C content between right and left sides palatal almond of the same patient presents small figures of 1.0-13.7%. Furthermore, difference by sex and age was not observed.
