Mitotic brain cells are just as prone to mitochondrial deletions as neurons: A large-scale single-cell PCR study of the human caudate nucleus

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1389-1400

  Storm, T ^a   Rath, S ^a   Mohamed, S A ^a   Bruse, P ^a   Kowald, A ^b   Oehmichen, M ^a,c   Meissner, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

4977 bp deletion; Aging; Astrocytes; Mitochondrial DNA; Neurons; Single cell PCR

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CELL; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MICROMANIPULATION; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS; MITOSIS RATE; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; AGED; AGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASTROCYTES; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MALE; MICROMANIPULATION; MITOSIS; NEURONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0037799693     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(02)00121-3     Document Type: Article

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