Stressed out mitochondria: The role of mitochondria in ageing and cancer focussing on strategies and opportunities in human skin

Mitochondrion

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 444-453

  Tulah, Asif S ^a   Birch Machin, Mark A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron transport chain; Infrared radiation; Mitochondrial DNA; Reactive oxygen species; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; FREE RADICAL; LYCOPENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DNA DAMAGE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PROTECTION; SUN EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

8-HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; 8-OHDG; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADP; ATP; BASE PAIRS; BP; CPD; CYCLOBUTANE PYRIMIDINE DIMER; D-LOOP; DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID; DISPLACEMENT LOOP; DNA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN; ELECTROPARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; EPR; ERK1/2; ETC; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED KINASE 1/2; FADH(2); FORKHEAD BOX PROTEIN (A FAMILY OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS); FOXO; FREE RADICAL THEORY OF AGEING; FRTA; H(+); H(2)O(2); HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; INFRARED A RADIATION; INFRARED B RADIATION; INFRARED C RADIATION; INFRARED RADIATION; IRA; IRB; IRC; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 1; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; MED; MINIMAL ERYTHEMA DOSE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MMP1; MMPS; MTDNA; NADH; NRF2; NUCLEAR FACTOR-LIKE 2 (TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR); O(2); O(2)()(-); O(H); O(L); OH()(-); ORIGIN OF HEAVY STRAND REPLICATION; ORIGIN OF LIGHT STRAND REPLICATION; OXYGEN; P(H); P(L); PCR; PHOSPHOR-INOSITIDE 3-KINASE; PI(3)K; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER FOR INITIATION OF HEAVY STRAND TRANSCRIPTION; PROMOTER FOR INITIATION OF LIGHT STRAND TRANSCRIPTION; PROTON; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REDUCED FLAVIN ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA; ROS; SED; STANDARD ERYTHEMA DOSE; SUPEROXIDE ANION; THENOYL TRIFLUOROACETATE; TTFA; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION WAVELENGTH 320-400NM; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION WAVELENGTH 280-320NM; ULTRAVIOLET C RADIATION WAVELENGTH 110-280NM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UVA; UVB; UVC; UVR;

AGING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FREE RADICALS; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; NEOPLASMS; SKIN;

EID: 84882876587     PISSN: 15677249     EISSN: 18728278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

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