Epigenetic revival of a dead cardiomyocyte through mitochondrial interventions

Biomolecular Concepts

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 303-319

  Kunkel, George H ^a   Chaturvedi, Pankaj ^a   Tyagi, Suresh C ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiomyocytes; epigenetics; mitochondria; revival

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SMOKING;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; SMOKING;

EID: 84939246468     PISSN: 18685021     EISSN: 1868503X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bmc-2015-0011     Document Type: Review

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