Role of mitochondrial DNA mutations in human aging: Implications for the central nervous system and muscle

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 217-223

  Brierley, Elizabeth J ^a   Johnson, Margaret A ^a   Lightowlers, Robert N ^a   James, Oliver F W ^a   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOPSY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOCHROME-C OXIDASE DEFICIENCY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0031885843     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410430212     Document Type: Article

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