NAC is precursor of cysteine, but it has additional features that were not observed with cysteine. So it can be used in all cases where cysteine is useful (as antioxidant, as antidote for negative effects of alcohol, for prevention of radiation damage, ...), but it is also used in psychiatry, for mucolytic therapy, to dissolve the van-Willebrand clotting factor, and as anti-inflammatory drug.
NAC is precursor of cysteine, but it has additional features that were not observed with cysteine. So it can be used in all cases where cysteine is useful (as antioxidant, as antidote for negative effects of alcohol, for prevention of radiation damage, ...), but it is also used in psychiatry, for mucolytic therapy, to dissolve the van-Willebrand clotting factor, and as anti-inflammatory drug.
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