[Carnosine in patients with type I diabetes mellitus].

Bratisl Lek Listy

Ist Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty, Safarikiensis University, Kosice, Slovakia.

Published: September 1999

Examination of carnosine in patients with diabetes mellitus type I, showed that the plasma levels of carnitine were non significantly increased compared to the levels in healthy population, while the levels in red cells were decreased Lowered levels of carnosine in red cells could point out similar deficit in other cells. Due to low levels in cells carnosine is less available for metabolic processes, like antioxidant reactions and its participation in antioxidants defense reactions is limited non-enzymatic glycosylation of proteins. Therefore it should be supplemented. (Tab. 1, Fig. 1, Ref. 15.)

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