Sentences with phrase «into cystine»

Glutathione biosynthesis proceeds up to a certain concentration, which in the liver is approximately 10 millimolar (mM), after which any excess cysteine is converted into cystine or catabolized into sulfate and protons (ie., metabolic acid).

L - Cysteine is often considered to be an antioxidant because of its sulfur content and rapidly converts into Cystine in the body.

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Cystine travels safely throgh the digestive tract and is promptly broken down into two cysteine molecules once it enters the cells.

Normal kidneys reabsorb the Amino Acid cystine so that only small amounts pass into the urine, while dogs with mutations of both copies of the SLC3A1 gene fail to reabsorb cystine allowing large amounts to pass into the urine, hence the name cystinuria.