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ArticleAging2018

Muscle function decline and mitochondria changes in middle age precede sarcopenia in mice.

Andrea Del Campo, Ignacio Contreras-Hernández, Mauricio Castro-Sepúlveda, Cristian A Campos, Reinaldo Figueroa, María Florencia Tevy, Verónica Eisner, Mariana Casas, Enrique Jaimovich

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Article in Aging, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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67citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. The link between Mitochondria and Sarcopenia.Journal of physiology and biochemistry · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Andrea Del CampoCenter for Exercise, Metabolism and Cancer, ICBM, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Ignacio Contreras-HernándezCenter for Exercise, Metabolism and Cancer, ICBM, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Mauricio Castro-SepúlvedaDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Cristian A CamposCenter for Exercise, Metabolism and Cancer, ICBM, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Reinaldo FigueroaCenter for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Universidad Mayor de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
María Florencia TevyCenter for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Universidad Mayor de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Verónica EisnerDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Mariana CasasCenter for Exercise, Metabolism and Cancer, ICBM, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Enrique JaimovichCenter for Exercise, Metabolism and Cancer, ICBM, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
University of Chile · CLPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · CLUniversidad Mayor · CL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sarcopenia is the degenerative loss of muscle mass and strength with aging. Although a role of mitochondrial metabolism in muscle function and in the development of many diseases has been described, the role of mitochondrial topology and dynamics in the process of muscle aging is not fully understood. This work shows a time line of changes in both mitochondrial distribution and skeletal muscle function during mice lifespan. We isolated muscle fibers from

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Adipose TissueAgingAnimalsCalciumDisease ProgressionMiceMitochondria, MuscleRandom AllocationRNA, MessengerSarcopeniaSarcoplasmic ReticulumCalciumRNA, Messengermitochondrial dynamicssarcopeniaskeletal muscle fibersSR-mitochondria coupling

Identifiers

PMID29302020
PMCPMC5811241
OpenAlexW2782197946

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