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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
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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 bioenergetic lesion and permit characterization of its functional consequences, we depleted Ntera2/D1 (NT2) teratocarcinoma...
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