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Are AGEs and Lipofuscin related? Could ALT-711 eliminate lipofuscin?

Michael Sierchio kudzu at dnai.com
Wed Jan 27 11:55:10 EST 1999


rjk3 at my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
> In article <36ae62f4.35739836 at nntp.uio.no>,
>   alf.christophersen at basalmed.uio.no (Alf Christophersen) wrote:
> ......
> > Please, don't ever try ethoxyquine. It ahs been used as a fungicide in
> > fish meal used for fish production 

> Wasn't meaning to encourage anyone to try it

Oh, puhleeze.  Of course there are problems with ethoxyquin -- it's
an agbiz chemical used to replace the much more expensive Vit. E in
chicken feed, for e.g.  Most manufacturers of mammal chows have stopped
using it -- but it isn't a fungicide,  it's an antioxidant.




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