Body and drug basics
CD38
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An enzyme that breaks down NAD+. CD38 activity increases with age and is considered a key driver of age-related NAD+ decline.
Why it matters here
It is the mechanism most often named for why NAD+ falls over a lifetime. No compound in this corpus is recorded as acting on CD38, so this is a term you meet in the reading rather than one you will find on a record.
What it is not
An enzyme, not a compound anyone takes. There is no CD38 record here because CD38 is the target being described, not the intervention.
Also called
- cd38
- cd-38
- cluster of differentiation 38
Compounds carrying this term
None on file yet. This term is in the controlled vocabulary but no compound record currently uses it — which is a statement about our coverage, not about the term.