Oxidative damage and mutation to mitochondrial DNA and age-dependent decline of mitochondrial respiratory function

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 854, Issue , 1998, Pages 155-170

  Wei, Yau Huei ^a   Lu, Ching You ^a   Lee, Hsin Chen ^a   Pang, Cheng Yoong ^a   Ma, Yi Shing ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; DEOXYGUANOSINE DERIVATIVE; ENZYME; FREE RADICAL; LIPID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SCAVENGER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; CELL DAMAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POINT MUTATION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SCHOOL CHILD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032436502     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09899.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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