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The concept of replacing hydrogen with deuterium is an example of bioisosterism, whereby similar biological effects to a known drug are produced in an analog designed to confer superior properties. [5] The first patent in the US granted for deuterated molecules was in the 1970s. Since then patents on deuterated drugs have become more common. [6]
The human body naturally contains deuterium equivalent to about five grams of heavy water, which is harmless. When a large fraction of water (> 50%) in higher organisms is replaced by heavy water, the result is cell dysfunction and death. [6] Heavy water was first produced in 1932, a few months after the discovery of deuterium. [7]
Thus, deuterium accounts for about 0.0156% by number (0.0312% by mass) of all hydrogen in the ocean: 4.85 × 10 13 tonnes of deuterium – mainly as HOD (or 1 HO 2 H or 1 H 2 HO) and only rarely as D 2 O (or 2 H 2 O) (Deuterium Oxide, also known as Heavy Water)– in 1.4 × 10 18 tonnes of water.
Heavy isotope diet is the consumption of nutrients in which some atoms are replaced with their heavier non-radioactive isotopes, such as deuterium (2 H) or heavy carbon (13 C). Biomolecules that incorporate heavier isotopes give rise to more stable molecular structures under certain circumstances, which is hypothesized to increase resistance to ...
DLW ('tagged' water) is traceable hydrogen (deuterium), and traceable oxygen (18 O). The 18 O leaves the body in two ways: (i) exhaled CO 2, and (ii) water loss in (mostly) urine, sweat, and breath. But the deuterium leaves only in the second way (water loss). From deuterium loss, we know how much of the tagged water left the body as water.
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Deuterium is a naturally-occurring, stable (non-radioactive) isotope of hydrogen with a nucleus consisting of one proton and one neutron. A nucleus of normal hydrogen (protium, 1 H) consists of one proton only, and no neutron. Deuterium thus has about twice the atomic mass as 1 H. Heavy water molecules contain two deuteriums instead of two 1 H