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Mitochondrial Complex I Mutations Predispose Drosophila to Isoflurane Neurotoxicity.
Anesthesiology - 1 Oct 2020
Olufs Zachariah P G, Ganetzky Barry, Wassarman David A, Perouansky Misha
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BACKGROUND: General anesthetics influence mitochondrial homeostasis, placing individuals with mitochondrial disorders and possibly carriers of recessive mitochondrial mutations at increased risk of perioperative complications. In Drosophila, mutations in the ND23 subunit of complex I of the mitochondrial electron transport chain-analogous to mammalian NDUFS8-replicate key characteristics of Leigh syndrome, an...
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