Zinc aspartate is an approved drug, used to treat zinc deficiency in humans. Zinc aspartate regulates the production of the growth hormone and sex hormones (it is necessary for the production of sperm cells and egg cells). It reduces the body’s susceptibility to infections and allergies. It promotes the proper secretion of insulin by the pancreas. Zinc deficiency causes: disorders in the functioning of the skin, the digestive system, the nervous system, the immunological system, and the skeletal system. Significant zinc deficiency can cause dwarfism and genital underdevelopment. Zinc aspartate suppresses experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model for multiple sclerosis (MS), as well as effector T cell functions in vitro.

Beta-alanine is an endogenous agonist of glycine receptor, which is used a supplementation among competitive athletes participating in a range of different sports. Beta-alanine has been shown to enhance muscular endurance and its supplementation appears to be most effective for exercise tasks that rely heavily on ATP synthesis from anaerobic glycolysis.

Retinal, All-trans is one of the forms of vitamin A. It is an isomer of 11-cis-retinal, transductor of light into the neural signals. Retinal, All-trans is converted to retinoic acid in vivo by the action of retinal dehydrogenase. Retinal, All-trans is associated with one of the two isoforms of cellular retinol-binding proteins (CRBP-I and CRBP-II). These proteins play important roles in retinoid biology and regulation of the metabolism of retinol and retinal.

Orotic acid is a minor dietary constituent. Historically it was believed to be part of the vitamin B complex and was called vitamin B13, but it is now known that it is not a vitamin and is synthesized in the body, where it arises as an intermediate in the pathway for the synthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides. Orotic acid is converted to UMP by UMP synthase, a multifunctional protein with both orotate phosphoribosyl transferase and orotidylate decarboxylase activity. The most frequently observed inborn error of pyrimidine nucleotide synthesis is a mutation of the multifunctional protein UMP synthase. As a result, plasma orotic acid accumulates to high concentrations, and increased quantities appear in the urine. Orotic acid levels are elevated in the urea cycle defects ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency, citrullinemia and argininosuccinic acidemia, as well as the mitochondrial transport disorder hyperornithinemia-hyperammonemia-homocitrullinuria (HHH) syndrome. Orotic acid is also elevated in hereditary orotic aciduria, or uridine monophosphate synthase deficiency, an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by megaloblastic anemia and crystalluria. In addition, orotic acid in combination with leflunomide is in the phase II of clinical trial to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of a combination in kidney transplant patients with high levels of Polyoma BK viruria for the purpose of preventing polyoma BK viremia and nephropathy, that could lead to kidney transplant loss from viral damage, acute rejection or both.