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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Water-soluble CoQ10 as A Promising Anti-aging Agent for Neurological Dysfunction in Brain Mitochondria.

Mayumi Takahashi, Kazuhide Takahashi

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Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Coenzyme QMetabolic brain disease · 2025
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  5. CoQAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  6. Coenzyme QScientific reports · 2023
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  8. Review
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  11. Coenzyme Q10, Ageing and the Nervous System: An Overview.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
    Review
  12. Review
  13. Mitochondria-Targeted Antioxidants: A Step towards Disease Treatment.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2020
    Review
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  15. The Important Role of CoQAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mayumi TakahashiBiological Process of Aging, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan. mmtaka@tmig.or.jp.
Kazuhide TakahashiBiological Process of Aging, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan. ktaka11@tmig.or.jp.
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitochondrial function has been closely associated with normal aging and age-related diseases. Age-associated declines in mitochondrial function, such as changes in oxygen consumption rate, cytochrome c oxidase activity of complex IV, and mitochondrial coenzyme Q (CoQ) levels, begin as early as 12 to 15 months of age in male mouse brains. Brain mitochondrial dysfunction is accompanied by increased accumulation of phosphorylated α-synuclein in the motor cortex and impairment of motor activities, which are similar characteristics of Parkinson's disease. However, these age-associated defects are completely rescued by the administration of exogenous CoQ10 to middle-aged mice via its water solubilization by emulsification in drinking water. Further efforts to develop strategies to enhance the biological availability of CoQ10 to successfully ameliorate age-related brain mitochondrial dysfunction or neurodegenerative disorders may provide a promising anti-aging agent.

Indexed as

agingbrain mitochondriamotor impairmentoxygen consumptionwater-soluble CoQ10α-synuclein

Identifiers

PMID30862106
PMCPMC6466529
OpenAlexW2920860902

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