Peter S. Rabinovitch of the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues genetically engineered mice to overexpress a gene responsible for making the antioxidant called catalase. …
[T]he team altered some of the mice so that the extra catalase went … into mitochondria, the cell's energy-producing organelles. Mitochondria produce most of an organism's free radicals as a side effect of converting food into energy. …
[A]nimals that guided catalase to mitochondria lived significantly longer than normal mice, adding about 5 months to their normal 3-year life spans.
Friday, May 06, 2005
Send those antioxidants to your mitochondria
According to Science News Online
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