Article
Cybrids in Alzheimer's disease: a cellular model of the disease?
Neurology - 1 Oct 1997
Swerdlow R H, Parks J K, Cassarino D S, Maguire D J, Maguire R S, Bennett J P, Davis R E, Parker W D
Abstract excerpt
The mitochondrial electron transport chain enzyme cytochrome c oxidase (COX) is defective in patients with sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD). This defect arises from the mutation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). To develop a tissue culture system that would express this genetically derived bioenerge...
Topics
- Alzheimer Disease
- Brain
- Cytoplasm
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Gene Transfer Techniques
- Genetic Techniques
- Humans
- Hybridization, Genetic
- Mutation
- Reactive Oxygen Species
- Reference Values
- Teratocarcinoma
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
