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SUBMITTER: Finley LW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3286952 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Finley Lydia W S LW Lee Jaewon J Souza Amanda A Desquiret-Dumas Valérie V Bullock Kevin K Rowe Glenn C GC Procaccio Vincent V Clish Clary B CB Arany Zoltan Z Haigis Marcia C MC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120203 8
Calorie restriction (CR) is a dietary intervention that extends lifespan and healthspan in a variety of organisms. CR improves mitochondrial energy production, fuel oxidation, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging in skeletal muscle and other tissues, and these processes are thought to be critical to the benefits of CR. PGC-1α is a transcriptional coactivator that regulates mitochondrial function and is induced by CR. Consequently, many of the mitochondrial and metabolic benefits of CR ar ...[more]