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Frontiers in Physiology, 2017 Coenzyme Q is a lipid that participates to important physiological functions. Coenzyme Q is synthesized in multiple steps from the precursor 4-hydroxybenzoic acid.
Fabien Pierrel
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The Ubiquitous and Multifaceted Coenzyme Q
AntioxidantsCoenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is composed of a benzoquinone ring and an isoprenoid side chain attached to carbon 3 of the ring [...]
Luca Tiano, Plácido Navas
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Antioxidants, 2021 The world continues a desperate search for therapies that could bring hope and relief to millions suffering from progressive neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s (AD) and Parkinson’s (PD).
Darcy Wear +5 more
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How plants synthesize coenzyme Q
Plant Communications, 2022 Coenzyme Q (CoQ) is a conserved redox-active lipid that has a wide distribution across the domains of life. CoQ plays a key role in the oxidative electron transfer chain and serves as a crucial antioxidant in cellular membranes.
Jing-Jing Xu +3 more
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Coenzyme Q at the Hinge of Health and Metabolic Diseases
Antioxidants, 2021 Coenzyme Q is a unique lipidic molecule highly conserved in evolution and essential to maintaining aerobic metabolism. It is endogenously synthesized in all cells by a very complex pathway involving a group of nuclear genes that share high homology among
Juan Diego Hernández-Camacho +4 more
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American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2015 To the Editor: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by an increase of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species production in the airways (1–3). Oxidative stress has been proportionately linked to the severity of the disease (2, 3). The lung has effective, well-integrated antioxidant systems to combat oxidative and nitrative injury ...
Suzy A A, Comhair +5 more
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Biosynthesis, Deficiency, and Supplementation of Coenzyme Q
Antioxidants, 2023 Originally identified as a key component of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, Coenzyme Q (CoQ or CoQ10 for human tissues) has recently been revealed to be essential for many different redox processes, not only in the mitochondria, but elsewhere within
Carmine Staiano +6 more
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Biology, 2021 At the end of the mammalian intra-uterine foetal development, a rapid switch from glycolytic to oxidative metabolism must proceed. Using microarray techniques, qPCR, enzyme activities and coenzyme Q content measurements, we describe perinatal ...
Jana Krizova +7 more
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Antihypoxic Activities of Coenzyme Q and Folic Acid in Asphyctic, Hemic, and Circulatory Hypoxia Models in Mice [PDF]
Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background and purpose: Hypoxia is a decrease in oxygen levels of body tissues which can lead to body function impairment. Coenzyme Q and folic acid are well-known drugs with distinctive antioxidant and anti-ischemic activities, but, nothing is known ...
Mahsa Modammadyan +3 more
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Cells, 2022 There is a reduced intake of selenium in many countries due to low levels of selenium in the soil. This results in an increased cardiovascular risk.
Urban Alehagen +3 more
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