Age related changes in mitochondrial function and new approaches to study redox regulation in mammalian oocytes in response to age or maturation conditions

Mitochondrion

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 783-796

  Eichenlaub Ritter, U ^a   Wieczorek, M ^a   Luke S ^b   Seidel, T ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Mitochondria; Oocyte; Redox regulation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE 2;

AGE; ANTIOXIDANT RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DETOXIFICATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRION; MITOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CYTOPLASM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; OOCYTES; ORGANELLE SHAPE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79959404400     PISSN: 15677249     EISSN: 18728278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2010.08.011     Document Type: Review

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