On Sat, 09 Jan 1999 08:21:28 GMT, ufotruth at ix.netcom.com wrote:
Although age pigments can
>be produced from different types of biological materials, the
>crosslinking of carbonyl and amino compounds is a common toxiferous
>process during biological life. In the context of various aging
>phenomena and degenerative diseases, this process may constitute an
>essential mechanism of aging--the carbonyl toxification process of
>biological aging.
>
First of all thanks for the good abstracts. Second, I might embarrass
myself here, but isn't a carbonyl/amino joining together what makes a
polypeptide? I don't understand how that is toxic.
O
||C-----N right?
