mitochondria

Damage to mitochondria may be a common factor in spaceflight health risks, the team now concludes.

It consists of about 50 proteins that have to be made in different subcompartments of the cell, assembled and fit into the inner membrane of the mitochondria.

What we found over and over was that something is happening with the mitochondria regulation that throws everything out of whack.

Without the critical worker, the mitochondria factory goes out of whack, which in turn knocks the cell’s normal metabolism into dysfunction.

So, some people have argued that really this is closer to an exercise mimetic than drugs that target the mitochondria, for example.