Role of Mitochondria in Environmentally and Dietary Modulated Age-Associated Diseases

Natascia Ventura; Judith Haendeler

doi:10.3390/cells12030404

Role of Mitochondria in Environmentally and Dietary Modulated Age-Associated Diseases

Cells. 2023 Jan 25;12(3):404. doi: 10.3390/cells12030404.

Authors

Natascia Ventura^{1

2}, Judith Haendeler³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical Faculty, University of Duesseldorf, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany.
² The IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany.
³ Environmentally-Induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical Faculty, University of Duesseldorf, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany.

Abstract

Aging is an intricate and unavoidable phenomenon characterized by progressive accumulation of damage to cellular structural components with consequent decline in physiological functions and development of different pathological conditions, which lead to increase in frailty and mortality risk and bring a huge economic burden in our society [...].

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aging* / physiology
Frailty*
Humans
Mitochondria

Grants and funding

N.V. would like to thank financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) Grant No. VE366/6-1 and VE366/8-1; the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Federal Ministry of Education and Research) Grant No. 01EA1602; and intramural funding (9772647) of the University Hospital of the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. J.H. received funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—Grant No. 236177352-SFB1116, TPA04; HA2868/14-1; IRTG1902 P2 and intramural funding (9772727) of the University Hospital of the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf.