Functional Category
Mitochondrial
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Compounds whose principal reported action is on mitochondria, the structures inside cells that turn fuel into usable energy. This covers the making of new mitochondria, the stability of their inner membrane, and the handling of the reactive by-products of respiration. Filed on principal target, so a compound that raises energy output as a downstream consequence of metabolic action stays under Metabolic.
Why it matters here
Mitochondrial claims are usually measured on cells or isolated tissue rather than on people, so a record here can hold a well-supported mechanism and nothing above cell culture for the outcome.
What it is not
Feeling more energetic is not a mitochondrial outcome: mitochondrial function is measured with things like oxygen consumption rate and membrane potential, while tiredness has many causes that have nothing to do with these structures. This shelf is also not the Mitochondrial Function pathway, which is the biology a mechanism acts on.
Also called
- mitochondria
- mitochondrial function
- bioenergetic
Bioenergetic is the research word for the same idea. On this site it is used in the pathway sense rather than as a category label.
Compounds carrying this term
None on file yet. This term is in the controlled vocabulary but no compound record currently uses it — which is a statement about our coverage, not about the term.