Beth, While it has been documented that silver kills many pathogens, I haven't seen where they have actually determined the mechanism. Here is a study that shows how silver attaches to HIV in vitro and that the silver kills the HIV virus but doesn't go so far as to determine how. http://www.physorg.com/news7264.html http://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/3/1/6 Here us another study that speculates that colloidal silver might kill bacteria by inhibiting the expression of enzymes and other proteins essential to ATP production. http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/71/11/7589.pdf <http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/71/11/7589.pdf>
If anyone has come across something more specific I would be interested in seeing it. - Steve N ________________________________ From: Bethany Methven [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 4:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CS>Help with some molecular silver information Hi, there, Could someone, anyone please, tell me if the following information is correct? I am trying to learn more about silver ions at the molecular level. Thanks - Beth Methven *Silver ions ( Ag+) attract the negatively charged oxygen (-O )and the negatively charged bacteria (-S-H ) and they all bind together. *When one oxygen and 2 hydrogen atoms come in contact, they form water ( H2O ), which floats away harmlessly. *The silver ion, then leaves the now harmless sulfur molecule, and moves on to attack more bacteria. *
