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| A brief historical review | |
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| How I came to study ozonetherapy: an odyssey with no end in sight | |
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| Ozone in nature | |
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| Physico-chemical properties of ozone | |
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| Ozone toxicity: biological risk, toxicology and first aid | |
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| The ozone generator | |
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| How to check ozone concentrations | |
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| Solubility of ozone in water and preparation of ozonized water and oil | |
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| Preliminary basis for understanding ozone reactivity and the potential risks of ozonetherapy | |
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| How is oxidative stress assessed? | |
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| Is there any justification for using ozonetherapy in human pathologies caused or worsened by free radicals? | |
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| The antioxidant system and the defence system against ozone | |
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| How does ozone act? | |
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| What happens in the intracellular environment after blood ozonization? | |
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| Are blood lipoproteins oxidized after ozonization? | |
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| How is ozone administered? | |
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| Extracorporeal blood circulation versus O[subscript 2]-O[subscript 3] (EBOO) | |
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| Quasi-total body exposure to O[subscript 2]-O[subscript 3] (BOEX) (V. Bocci and E. Borrelli) | |
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| Rectal insufflation of O[subscript 2]-O[subscript 3] (RI) | |
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| The potential toxicity and mutagenicity of ozone | |
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| Side effects and contraindications of ozonetherapy | |
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| The adaptation to chronic oxidative stress (COS) | |
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| How to evaluate Ozonetherapy? | |
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| Ozonetherapy in various pathologies | |
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| How important is the placebo effect in ozonetherapy? | |
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| Ozonetherapy in dentistry | |
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| Ozonetherapy in cosmetology | |
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| Ozonetherapy in veterinary medicine | |
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| Ozone as doping in athletes | |
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| Ozone as a rejuvenating agent! | |
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| Ozone as a drinking water disinfectant | |
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| Ozone disinfection to prevent nosocomial infections | |
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| Can ozone be useful for banked blood or fresh frozen plasma? | |
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| Is there any way to substitute ozonization of blood? | |
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| Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HOT) versus ozonetherapy | |
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| Acute care during of after ozonetherapy | |
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| Orthodox medicine versus complementary medicine: a conflict that may be resolved with appropriate research | |
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| Does ozonetherapy have a future in medicine? | |
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| Appendix: The optimized procedure of O[subscript 3]-AHT | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |