Jun 21 2010
Carnosine Can Help Combat Cataracts
In the July 28, 2009 issue of the journal Biochemistry, Italian researchers reported that the dipeptide carnosine can potentially treat and prevent cataracts. Enrico Rizzarelli of the University of Catania and his colleagues tested the effects of D- and L-carnosine on bovine cultured alpha-crystallin, the major structural protein in the lens of the eye. This discovery further supports those of other researchers over the past decade, including that of Chinese researchers who, in 1999, discovered that carnosine has pronounced effect on primary senile cataracts (an effective rate of 100%) as well as mature senile cataracts (the effect rate was 80%).
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