Design and synthesis of glutathione analogues
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Together with garlic these substances benefit the heart, the cardiovascular system and have a high antioxidant effect: Garlic has lipid-lowering, anti-blood coagulation, anti-hypertension, anti-cancer, antioxidant and anti-microbial effects, the substance in it, that is responsible for these highly beneficial effects, is allicin, the major biologically active component of garlic: it is the key ingredient responsible for the broad-spectrum of anti-bacterial activity
In particular, they are essential for the oxidative catabolism of long-chain fatty acids by shuttling them across the mitochondrial membrane from the cytosol into the mitochondrial matrix for oxidation and cellular energy production and thence for maintaining energy homeostasis in the human body
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