Mitochondria know no boundaries: Mechanisms and functions of intercellular mitochondrial transfer

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2016, Pages

  Torralba, Daniel ^a,b   Baixauli, Francesc ^a,b   Sánchez Madrid, Francisco ^a,b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Communication; DAMPs; Exosomes; Extracellular vesicles; Horizontal genetic transfer; Inflammation; Mitochondrial diseases; Tunneling nanotubes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012137262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2016.00107     Document Type: Review

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