Microbial mito-pathogens: Fact or fiction?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1051-1053

  Bongaerts, Ger P A ^a   van den Heuvel, Lambert P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; FAT; GLUCOSE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DESTRUCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VIABILITY; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; ENERGY YIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIROID; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CARBOHYDRATES; FATS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; ORGANELLES; OXYGEN; PARASITES; PRIONS; VIRUSES;

EUKARYOTA; VASCONCELLEA CANDICANS;

EID: 40849088461     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.06.036     Document Type: Article

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