H + Anion + NaHCO 3 Na + Anion + H 2 O + CO 2 With the accumulation of pyroglutamic acid in the setting of a low capacity 5-oxiprolinase to metabolize pyroglutamic acid into glutamate, there will be an overwhelmed enzyme unable to maintain a balance between production and conversion, thus gradually building-up levels of oxoproline/pyroglutamic acid (Figure 2)
Kinetics of uptake and deacetylation of N-acetylcysteine by human erythrocytes
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