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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 05:42:49 EDT
Subject: Re: CryoNet #21775 Heat shock protein

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Some day ago, I have received a sample of copal: A sap derivative of tropical 
conifers. This product is known to contain a high dose of chaperones or 
heat-shock proteins. If taken with chicken peas, so that the proteins are not 
broken into simple amino-acids in the stomach, they could go the the blood 
flow and enter cells or bath exterior structural proteins.

Is there someone interested in testing copal on small animals? To use it as 
food additive?

Yvan Bozzonetti.


> The molecules, called "small heat-shock proteins," are known to assemble 
> into complexes that bind to damaged
> or unfolded cellular proteins and prevent them from forming into harmful 
> aggregations.
> 


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