NAC is also the chemical precursor to glutathione
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These changes included mucosal erosion, ulcerative lesions, deformation and distortion of colonic recesses, extensive infiltration of inflammatory cells (primarily lymphocytes and neutrophils) in the mucosa and submucosa, and depletion of goblet cells