Oxidative stress in human aging and mitochondrial disease-consequences of defective mitochondrial respiration and impaired antioxidant enzyme system

Chinese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-11

  Wei, Yau Huei ^a   Lu, Ching You ^a   Wei, Chia Yu ^a   Ma, Yi Shing ^a   Lee, Hsin Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

8 hydroxy 2 deoxyguanosine; Aging; Antioxidant enzymes; Catalase; Free radicals; Glutathione peroxidase; Lipid peroxidation; Mitochondrial DNA; Mitochondrial respiration; Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SCAVENGER;

AGING; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL RESPIRATION; CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE EXTERNAL OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MELAS SYNDROME; MERRF SYNDROME; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL RESPIRATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; MELAS SYNDROME; MERRF SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA, CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE EXTERNAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 0035978154     PISSN: 03044920     EISSN: 26660059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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