Reduced amount of mitochondrial DNA in aged human muscle

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1479-1484

  Welle, Stephen ^a,b   Bhatt, Kirti ^a   Shah, Bharati ^a   Needler, Nancy ^a   Delehanty, Joseph M ^a   Thornton, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cytochrome c oxidase; Gene expression; Mitochondrial transcription factor a; Nuclear respiratory factor 1

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A 1; NUCLEAR RESPIRATORY FACTOR 1; OXYGEN; PROTEIN; RNA 28S; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA CONTENT; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FEMALE; FITNESS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037378401     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01061.2002     Document Type: Article

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