Mitochondrial dysfunction /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Lash, Lawrence H.; Jones, Dean P., 1949-
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: San Diego :
Publication Dates: 1993.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Methods in toxicology, v. 2
Subjects:
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124612051
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xx, 502 pages, [1] pages of plates) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Index Number: QH603
CLC: Q731
Contents: Introduction: criteria for assessing normal and abnormal mitochondrial function -- Systems for study of mitochondrial dysfunction -- Mitochondrial isolation from liver and kidney: strategy, techniques, and criteria for purity -- Mitochondrial isolation from brain: strategy, techniques, and criteria for purity -- Intact rat brain mitochondria from a single animal: preparation and properties -- Study of skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction -- Small-scale preparation of skeletal muscle mitochondria and its application in the study of human disease -- Metabolic control analysis as a method to assess mitochondrial dysfunction -- Assessment of mitochondrial dysfunction in vivo and in organ systems -- Commentary: methods for in vivo assessment of mitochondrial function -- Noninvasive assessment of mitochondrial function by breath analysis using ketoisocaproic acid -- Absorption spectroscopy for assessment of mitochondrial function in vivo -- Analysis of mitochondrial function by carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in intact tissues.
(cont) Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the study of mitochondrial metabolism -- Mitochondrial dysfunction in ischemic organs -- Screening for mitochondrial cytopathy: the subanaerobic threshold exercise test -- Assay of mitochondrial structural integrity -- Morphometry of mitochondria: size, internal structure, subcellular distribution, and three-dimensional reconstruction -- Megamitochondria -- Redox status and mitochondrial inner membrane permeability -- Mitochondrial metabolism and bioactivation and detoxification systems -- Assessment of mitochondrial glutathione as a measure of cell injury -- Experimental manipulation of mitochondrial glutathione concentrations -- Determination of flux, activity, and activity state of mitochondrial [alpha]-keto acid dehydrogenase complexes -- Regulation of oxygen uptake in the liver lobule by oxygen tension -- Generation of reactive oxygen metabolites and oxidative damage in mitochondria: role of calcium.
(cont) Fatty acid metabolism and Reye's syndrome -- Antioxidative function of vitamin E and ubiquinols -- Mitochondrial NADPH -- Long-chain acyl-CoA metabolism by mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase: a cell model for pathological studies -- Mitochondrial energetics and transport processes -- Identification of mitochondrial dysfunction at coupling site I: loss of activity of NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase during myocardial ischemia -- Identification of mitochondrial dysfunction at coupling site II -- Cellular calcium and mitochondrial dysfunction -- Chronic alcoholism and the mitochondrial F F -ATP synthase -- Mitochondrial pyrophosphate metabolism in health and disease -- Toxic effects of calcium on mitochondria -- Calcium and the regulation of intramitochondrial dehydrogenases -- Use of fluorescent probes to monitor mitochondrial membrane potential in isolated mitochondria, cell suspensions, and cultured cells -- Genetic and developmental approaches to study of mitochondrial dysfunction -- Commentary: genetic approaches to mitochondrial DNA diseases of oxidative phosphorylation.
(cont) Developmental aspects of mitochondrial dysfunction -- Mitochondrial DNA synthesis -- Covalent binding of reactive intermediates of xenobiotics to mitochondrial DNA -- Mitochondrial DNA repair and cell injury.