Mitochondrial point mutations do not limit the natural lifespan of mice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 540-543

  Vermulst, Marc ^a   Bielas, Jason H ^a   Kujoth, Gregory C ^b   Ladiges, Warren C ^a   Rabinovitch, Peter S ^a   Prolla, Tomas A ^b   Loeb, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL AGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INDUCED MUTATION; LIFESPAN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DEPLETION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOUSE; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; LONGEVITY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOCHONDRIA; POINT MUTATION;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 34047116291     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1988     Document Type: Article

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