Mitochondrial fragmentation in neurodegeneration

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 505-518

  Knott, Andrew B ^a   Perkins, Guy ^b   Schwarzenbacher, Robert ^c   Bossy Wetzel, Ella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DYNAMIN I; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOFUSIN 1; MITOFUSIN 2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BIOENERGY; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE FUSION; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SUMOYLATION; SYNAPSE; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 45749117188     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2417     Document Type: Review

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