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Differences in the accumulation of mitochondrial defects with age in mice and humans.
Mechanisms of ageing and development - 1 Jan 2000
Greaves Laura C, Barron Martin J, Campbell-Shiel George, Kirkwood Thomas B L, Turnbull Douglass M
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Mitochondrial DNA mutations and associated defects in cytochrome c oxidase (COX) are proposed to play an important role in human ageing; however there have been limited studies on the frequency of these defects in normal mouse ageing. Here we compare COX-deficiency in two epithelial tissues; the colon and the ciliary epithelium, from human and mouse. The pattern of accumulation of COX-deficiency is similar in...
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