The importance of PGC-1α in contractile activity-induced mitochondrial adaptations

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 300, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Uguccioni, Giulia ^a   Hood, David A ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c oxidase; Exercise; Mitochondrial transcription factor A; Skeletal muscle; Transcriptional coactivators

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE KINASE; CELL PROTEIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 4; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A; NUCLEAR GENES ENCODING MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; OXYGENASE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1BETA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; METABOLIC STRESS; MOUSE; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 79251539237     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00292.2010     Document Type: Article

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