Mitochondrial DNA mutations may contribute to aging via cell death caused by peptides that induce cytochrome c release

Rejuvenation Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 611-619

  Dubec, Steven J ^a   Aurora, Rajeev ^a   Zassenhaus, H Peter ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; DNA POLYMERASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOCHROMES C; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; PEPTIDES;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 46449116988     PISSN: 15491684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/rej.2007.0617     Document Type: Article

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