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The pathophysiology of mitochondrial disease as modeled in the mouse.
Genes & development - 1 Aug 2009
Wallace Douglas C, Fan Weiwei
Abstract excerpt
It is now clear that mitochondrial defects are associated with a plethora of clinical phenotypes in man and mouse. This is the result of the mitochondria's central role in energy production, reactive oxygen species (ROS) biology, and apoptosis, and because the mitochondrial genome consists of roughly 1500 genes distributed across the maternal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the Mendelian nuclear DNA (nDNA). While...
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