Role of mitochondrial deterioration in physiological and pathological brain aging

Gerontology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 187-192

  Bertoni Freddari, Carlo ^a   Fattoretti, Patrizia ^a   Giorgetti, Belinda ^a   Solazzi, Moreno ^a   Balietti, Marta ^a   Meier Ruge, William ^b  

^a INRCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial dysfunction; Mitochondrial genetics; Mitochondrial metabolic competence; Mitochondrial structural dynamics; Mitochondrial therapeutics; Oxidative damage; Synaptic mitochondria

Indexed keywords

AGING; BRAIN; CELL AGING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DETERIORATION; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUSCLE CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AGING; BRAIN; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 2342464382     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076779     Document Type: Review

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