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From beach to the bedside: harnessing mitochondrial function in human diseases using new marine-derived strategies
Abstract

Mitochondria are double-membrane organelles within eukaryotic cells that act as cellular power houses owing to their ability to efficiently generate the ATP required to sustain normal cell function. Also, they represent a “hub” for the regulation of a plethora of processes, including cellular homeostasis, metabolism, the defense against oxidative stress, and cell death. Mitochondrial dysfunctions are associated with a wide range of human diseases with complex pathologies, including metabolic diseases, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer. Therefore, regulating dysfunctional mitochondria represents a pivotal therapeutic opportunity in biomedicine. Marine ecosystems are biologically very diversified and harbor a broad range of organisms, providing both novel bioactive substances and molecules with meaningful biomedical and pharmacological applications. Recently, many mitochondria-targeting marine-derived molecules have been described to regulate mitochondrial biology, thus exerting therapeutic effects by inhibiting mitochondrial abnormalities, both in vitro and in vivo, through different mechanisms of action. Here, we review different strategies that are derived from marine organisms which modulate specific mitochondrial processes or mitochondrial molecular pathways and ultimately aim to find key molecules to treat a wide range of human diseases characterized by impaired mitochondrial function.

Bibliographic citation
Mirra, S.; Marfany, G. (2024). From beach to the bedside: harnessing mitochondrial function in human diseases using new marine-derived strategies. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25(2): 834. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms25020834
Topic
Marine
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true
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open access
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Authors

author
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Serena Mirra
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Name
Gemma Marfany

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms25020834

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2024-01-15
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2024-01-15