Under oxidative stress, excessive ROS emissions lead to mitochondrial damage, and loss or defects in mitochondrial energy production can enhance metabolic processes in the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, ETC, exacerbating ROS release and reducing antioxidant enzymes [81,82,83]
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Under low oxygen, BINP3 and BNIP3L are upregulated, bind to Bcl-2 in place of Beclin-1, freeing it from the complex and leading to higher rates of autophagy (262)
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The percentage of patients reporting a side effect was 3.7% with antioxidants and 2.0% with placebo (logRR=0.36
Finally, it is important to acknowledge that the metabolic alterations described here represent only one aspect of the multifactorial mechanisms proposed to underlie Long COVID