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Mitochondrial DNA depletion and morphologic changes in adipocytes associated with nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor therapy
1 Jun 2003
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BACKGROUND: Nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) therapy provides sufficient conditions for progressive subcutaneous fat wasting in HIV-infected patients. As NRTI-induced host toxicity is proposed to involve cellular mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion, determinants of cellular mtDNA copy number and mitochondrial mass in adipocyte samples from NRTI-treated HIV-infected patients and...
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