Now they report recovering not just collagen — which conveys little evolutionary information because it is the same in almost all animals — but
also haemoglobin, elastin and laminin, as well as cell - like structures resembling blood and bone cells.
Not exact matches
The analysis shows that the soft tissue layer around the bones retained traces of ferrous iron, a relic left over from
haemoglobin that was
also trapped in the sample.
The study
also showed that the main activator of artemisinin is haem, a specific iron - containing compound, either biosynthesised by the parasite at its early developmental ring stage, or derived from
haemoglobin digestion in the later stages.
The researchers
also noticed that the number of
haemoglobin molecules with oxygen was fewer when the subjects had taken creatine than when they had taken a placebo.
Milk Thistle was
also found to have significant beneficial effects on glycosylated
haemoglobin (AGE) levels, total cholesterol and LDL - cholesterol levels, and triglyceride levels in diabetics.