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Mitochondrial DNA and Kidney Function
1 Jul 2022
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Mitochondria play an essential role in cellular energy production and multiple hemostatic pathways. Not surprisingly, therefore, mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of many diseases (12–3). Mitochondria are unique among cellular organelles in that they have their own genome, encoding 13 peptides involved in oxidative phosphorylation. In contrast to nuclear DNA that exists in two copies, up to several thousand...
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