Skeletal muscle mitochondrial respiratory chain content

Biomarker

1 paper studies it1 finding

  • Humans1

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active 85-year-olds

no changein humans1

1 study
  1. active 85-year-olds are associated with skeletal muscle mitochondrial respiratory chain content in humans (Mean fibre Z-scores: complex I −0.7 (0.7); complex IV −0.2 (0.4)).

    “Muscle mitochondrial respiratory chain function and content are preserved in a sample of active, well-functioning 85-year-olds”

    Humansrelative to young controlsvastus lateralis musclen = 7

    Mitochondrial respiratory chain function and content are preserved in the skeletal muscle of active very old men and women

    Experimental gerontology

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