Essays about: "beta alanine"
Found 3 essays containing the words beta alanine.
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1. Aqueous self-assembly behaviour alteration derived from primary structure changes of model peptides
University essay from Lunds universitet/Kemiska institutionenAbstract : Understanding of the self-assembly behaviour of peptides is of great interest within several different areas such as neurodegenerative diseases, biotechnology, and peptide pharmaceuticals. In this work we have compared the impact on the self-assembly behaviour derived from systematic changes of the primary structure of A8K, where A denotes alanine and K lysine. READ MORE
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2. The effects of β-alanine supplementation in aerobic exercise - A way to delay the onset of muscular fatigue?
University essay from Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET)Abstract : Muscle fatigue has always been of vital importance in most sports. A few possible factors have been reported to be the cause of muscular fatigue during high intensity exercise; depletion of glycogen, oxidative stress, disruption of contractile mechanisms and accumulation of metabolites. READ MORE
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3. Substitution of disulphide bonds to hydrophobic amino acids in BACE1
University essay from Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologiAbstract : The study and understanding of Alzheimer’s disease on protein level is fundamentally important in the search for its treatment and there is a demand for proteins that can be used together with candidate drugs in crystallography trials. The refolding time reaching up to three weeks for beta-site APP cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1), the proposed disease-generating protein, is presently not optimal and new protein constructs are needed. READ MORE