Mitochondrial DNA mutations and aging

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1100, Issue , 2007, Pages 227-240

  Krishnan, Kim J ^a   Greaves, Laura C ^a   Reeve, Amy K ^a   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Mitochondria; mtDNA mutations; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA;

AGING; AUTOPHAGY; CELL TYPE; CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE EXTERNAL OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; CLONOGENESIS; COLON; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOLOGY; DAUGHTER CELL; DISEASE MODEL; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; HUMAN; KEARNS SAYRE SYNDROME; MELAS SYNDROME; MERRF SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MITOSIS; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PEARSON SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; CELL DEATH; GENETICS; GENOME; MOUSE; MUTATION; REVIEW;

MUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; GENOME; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOSIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 34249712268     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1395.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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