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Cellular Redox Profiling Using High-content Microscopy
Published on: May 14, 2017
Cellular coenzyme Q10 redox poise constitutes a major cell metabolic and gene regulatory system
1Centre for Molecular Biology and Medicine, Epworth Medical Centre, Richmond, VIC, Australia. tlinnane@cmbm.com.au
Abstract:
A hypothesis as to the nature of the ageing process is presented. Our studies lead us to emphasise that ageing is a stochastic process; it is individualistic, it is species specific, it is different for individuals within a species, it is organ and tissue specific as well as varying among individual cells of a tissue. Human ageing is a slow process which takes place over decades; it is a cellular process in a dynamic equilibrium of continuing damage and repair. Tissues are damage mosaics. We hypothesise that the characteristic of ageing post-mitotic tissues is the progressive, slow loss of cells; those cells which no longer adequately function are removed by an apoptotic or non-inflammatory necrotic process. A case is made for an encompassing role for coenzyme Q10 in the regulation of systemic disease, cellular metabolism and ageing.
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