Mitochondrial dysfunction in aging: Much progress but many unresolved questions

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1847, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1347-1353

  Payne, Brendan A I ^a   Chinnery, Patrick F ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; DNA; Mitochondrial

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

AGING; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA REPLICATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPENIA; SENESCENCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; MUTATION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84941734879     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: 18792650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2015.05.022     Document Type: Article

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