HELIUM-NEON LASER AS AN INDUCER OF INTERF ERON-PRODUCTION

Helium-neon laser has first been shown to be an active interferon indu cer. Marked induction was found at various radiation power (1, 6-7, 20 MW) and at various radiation exposures: from 1 sec to 1 min both for single (up to 512 units/ml) and repeated (up to 1024 units/ml) effects on leukocytes of the donor blood. The major part of interferon was sh own to be acid-labile and a lesser part was acid-stable alpha- and gam ma-interferons. The above data are of both practical and theoretical i mportance for the elucidation of the pathogenetic mechanisms of positi ve therapeutic effect of this light on living beings.