About the Authors

Weili Shen

Affiliation Institute for Nutritional Science, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Jiejie Hao

Affiliations Institute for Nutritional Science, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Chuan Tian

Affiliations Institute for Nutritional Science, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jinmin Ren

Affiliation Institute for Nutritional Science, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Lu Yang

Affiliation Institute for Nutritional Science, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Xuesen Li

Affiliations Institute for Nutritional Science, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Cheng Luo

Affiliation Institute for Nutritional Science, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Carl W. Cotma

Affiliation Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jiankang Liu

j.liu@uci.edu

Affiliation Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Patent has been filed on combination of mitochondrial nutrients metioned in this paper: Chinese patent application No 200610162888.4. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC JL WS. Performed the experiments: WS JR JH CT LY XL CL. Analyzed the data: WS JH CT. Wrote the paper: JL WS.