Impairing the mitochondrial fission and fusion balance: A new mechanism of neurodegeneration

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1147, Issue , 2008, Pages 283-292

  Knott, Andrew B ^a   Bossy Wetzel, Ella ^a  

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

Author keywords

Drp1; GTPases; Huntington's disease; Mitofusins; OPA1; Parkin; Parkinson's disease; PINK1

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HUNTINGTIN; MITOFUSIN 2; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; ROTENONE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT OPTIC ATROPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; FAMILIAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROTEIN INDUCTION;

EID: 57649210194     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1427.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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