The biochemical, pathophysiological, and medical aspects of ubiquinone function

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 854, Issue , 1998, Pages 394-409

  Nohl, Hans ^a   Gille, Lars ^a   Staniek, Katrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CYTOCHROME; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN RADICAL; PROTON; UBIQUINONE;

CELL MEMBRANE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; LIPOPHILICITY; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MITOCHONDRION; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTON TRANSPORT; REDUCTION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; SENESCENCE;

EID: 0032408936     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09919.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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