Mitochondrial DNA damage and the aging process-facts and imaginations

Free Radical Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1284-1294

  Wiesner, Rudolf J ^a   Zsurka, Gábor ^b,c   Kunz, Wolfram S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c Life and Brain Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMN moiety; Mitochondrial DNA; mtDNA; TFAM

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AGING; ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; HISTONES; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33750706163     PISSN: 10715762     EISSN: 10292470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10715760600913168     Document Type: Article

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