Description
| What is the Carnosine?
Structure of the molecule of Carnosine by MICO L-carnosine (N-Beta-Alanyl-L-Histidine) is a dipeptide that is found in vertebrate organisms and particularly abundant in the crystalline lens, the brain (especially the primary olfactory pathways) and the skeletal muscle tissues, but not in human cardiac muscle. The tissue of mammals contains carnosine and anserine (N-methyl-carnosine), whereas human tissues only contains carnosine. L-carnosine is normally present at concentrations of about 20 mm in skeletal muscle tissue and 5 mm in the brain. Such high levels in these tissues seem be associated with carnosine’s resistance to proteolytic cleavage and low local activity of specific enzymes (carnosinase). Although no specific metabolic function has officially been attributed to carnosine, recent scientific research has identified the role it plays in numerous physiological processes.
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| All these properties make it a particularly interesting and extremely versatile nourishing substance. The best documented functions of L-carnosine include its broad-spectrum antioxidant activity (proven interaction with numerous types of free radicals, including oxygen, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals), and neutralization of superfluous protons, multi-valence metal ions and free radical compounds (general buffering action). |
