Raw material for the food industry – PANTAEL reindeer antler concentrate.

The antler deer breeding product application has a history of more than one thousand years. And for so many years, the preparations and medications made from antlers have taken the leading position among the countless traditional and nontraditional remedies of health maintenance, youth prolongation and senescence postponement…

Antlers (young deer horns) are the bone sponge gorged with blood. Antlers are a complex organ that consists of various, mostly young, growing and differentiating tissues. The integument is the skin; the central is cerebral, rich of the thin-wall vessels surroundeded by the loose AREOLAR connective tissue. The antlers preserved by the thermal treatment have been used in the folk medicine of the South-East Asia countries for over 2000 years.

In the basic oriental medicine recipes, the conserved antlers have always been triturated and comminuted to take in the form of powder as a medication often mixing it with other powders. Their positive action has been observed at anemia, exhaustion, general body weakening after infectious diseases, at cardiovascular system failure, delayed healing. To this day, the oriental physicians successfully prescribe antlers at various functional sexual system disorders in both males and females. There is a belief that the antler and ginseng tincture is the most effective medication against all forms of impotency.

For 80 years, in Russia they have studied the chemical composition of antlers and the mechanism of their impact on human body. The research performed by us has proved conclusively that not only the antlers of red or Japanese deer have healing properties, but also the ones of reindeer. Moreover, their potency by some of the biologically active substances is much higher than of the red deer antlers. Under extreme conditions of the Far North, the reindeer, struggling for survival on the short polar days, generates the maximum quantity of the biologically active substances. This unique phenomenon explains the burst of vital force in those indigenous ethnic groups, which consume the reindeer antlers. At that, the vital biologically active substances are compensated in the body which helps a human being to survive under severe conditions of the North...

Antlers contain a huge number of the bioactive substances, ALBUMINOUS compounds and energizers required not only for treatment of various diseases but also as a prophylactic, a tonic agent for the apparently healthy people.

At the present time, the two preparations are made from antlers PANTOCRINE and VELCORNINE. At that, only 3% of solids are transited to the preparations at the extraction. The principal share of the biologically active substances remains in the cake and is not used. We have developed the hydrolysis method, which allows for the 32% of the biologically active substances to be transited from antlers. (Table 1).

According to the data obtained, we have developed the 'Reindeer antler biologically active substance concentrate' used as a raw material for the food industry at manufacturing the BAA s to food and tonic beverages.

The raw stuff is represented in the following two versions:

1. The dry powder dried out on the freeze drier;

2. The liquid one stripped off 1:5 on the vacuum unit.

The 'Reindeer antler biologically active substance concentrate' has a better effect on human body due to the maximum concentration of the complex of biologically active substances. Its composition contains over 80 biologically active substances, which are diversified by their chemical nature: peptides, amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, growths hormones and factors, nucleotides, mineral substances, GLUCOSIDES, vitamins.

The amino acid composition of the 'Reindeer antler biologically active substance concentrate' raw material is given in Tables 2 and 3.

The 'Reindeer antler biologically active substance concentrate' dry preparation contains 67.9% of amino acids, the liquid one – 9.7%. The raw stuff is a valued source of the essential amino acids that must be consumed with food. Furthermore, the raw material contains protein with collagen as a main protein-containing compound and includes GLYCINE, ALANINE, PROLINE and HYDROOXYPROLINE. Among the other amino acids contained in the 'Reindeer antler biologically active substance concentrate' the following can be highlighted: lysine, THREONINE, VALINE (amino ISOVALERIC acid), LEUCINE, ISOLEUCINE, phenylalanine, HISTIDINE, ARGININE, serine, GLUTAMIC and aspartic acids, CYSTINE and tyrosine. Amino acids are the most important components of proteins, ferments, hormones and other biological substances. Moreover, they also have an independent prophylactic meaning. GLUTAMIC acid takes part in the biological processes of the brain, protein and carbohydrate metabolism, improves the head nourishing of the GLIAL cells of the brain, as well as it is widely used at mental diseases. ASPSRAGINIC or aspartic acid is applied at cardiovascular diseases, promotes the penetration of ions of potassium and magnesium into the intracellular compartment. The mixture of METHIONINE, CYSTEINE, glutathione and ATP improves the protein biosynthesis.

The 'Reindeer antler biologically active substance concentrate' raw material contains the broad range of mineral substances (Table 4):

And a special attention should be paid to the high content of potassium, sodium, phosphorus, calcium and iron.

Taking the unique chemical composition into consideration, the 'Reindeer antler biologically active substance concentrate' is reasonable to use at manufacturing of the wide range of biologically active additives to food.

Pharmaceutical form: dry and liquid.