O affects mitochondrial functionality ex vivo.

Mitochondria have originated in eukaryotic cells by endosymbiosis of a specialized prokaryote approximately 2 billion years ago. They are essential for normal cell function by providing energy through their role in oxidizing carbon substrates. Glutathione (GSH) is a major thiol-disulfide redox buffer of the cell including the mitochondrial matrix and intermembrane space.

Transgenic Organisms Meet Redox Bioimaging: One Step Closer to Physiology.

Significance: Redox signaling is a common mechanism in the cellular response toward a variety of stimuli. For analyzing redox-dependent specific alterations in a cell, genetically encoded biosensors were highly instrumental in the past. To advance the knowledge about the importance of this signaling mechanism in vivo, models that are as close as possible to physiology are needed.

X-ray-based lung function measurement reveals persistent loss of lung tissue elasticity in mice recovered from allergic airway inflammation.

Chronic asthma patients experience difficulties even years after the inciting allergen. Although studies in small animal asthma models have enormously advanced progress in uncovering the mechanisms of inception and development of the disease, little is known about the processes involved in the persistence of asthma symptoms in the absence of allergen exposure. Long-term asthma mouse models have so far been scarce or not been able to reproduce the findings in patients.