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Variations in mouse mitochondrial DNA copy number from fertilization to birth are associated with oxidative stress.
Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Dec 2008
Aiken Catherine Em, Cindrova-Davies Tereza, Johnson Martin H
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondria are inherited maternally via the oocyte, which in the mouse contains 150-250 x 10(3) copies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The number of mtDNA copies/embryo is thought to be stable during cleavage, being progressively diluted/cell with each round of cell division, until replication be...
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