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A new vicious cycle involving glutamate excitotoxicity, oxidative stress and mitochondrial dynamics.
Cell death & disease - 8 Dec 2011
Nguyen D, Alavi M V, Kim K-Y, Kang T, Scott R T, Noh Y H, Lindsey J D, Wissinger B, Ellisman M H, Weinreb R N, Perkins G A, Ju W-K
Abstract excerpt
Glutamate excitotoxicity leads to fragmented mitochondria in neurodegenerative diseases, mediated by nitric oxide and S-nitrosylation of dynamin-related protein 1, a mitochondrial outer membrane fission protein. Optic atrophy gene 1 (OPA1) is an inner membrane protein important for mitochondrial...
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