Its cell wall is rich in highly active functional groups, specifically carboxyl, hydroxyl, and amino groups, which act like magnets for positively charged heavy metal ions
The drugs themselves are composed of different small-molecule agonists, a fancy medical term for a manufactured substance that causes the same reaction in the body as one that naturally occurs
Copper peptides represent one very specific application of copper biology, while dietary copper provides the nutritional foundation that allows those biological processes to occur in the first place
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