Compartment-dependent mitochondrial alterations in experimental als, the effects of mitophagy and mitochondriogenesis

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue NOVEMBER, 2015, Pages

  Natale, Gianfranco ^a   Lenzi, Paola ^a   Lazzeri, Gloria ^a   Falleni, Alessandra ^a   Biagioni, Francesca ^b   Ryskalin, Larisa ^a   Fornai, Francesco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Autophagy; Biogenesis of mitochondria; Electron microscopy; G93A transgenic mouse; Lithium; Mitochondria; Motor neuron

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL VOLUME; MITOCHONDRION; MITOCHONDRION SWELLING; MITOPHAGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84947555821     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00434     Document Type: Article

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