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SUBMITTER: Trevelyan AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2842518 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trevelyan Andrew J AJ Kirby Denise M DM Smulders-Srinivasan Tora K TK Nooteboom Marco M Acin-Perez Rebeca R Enriquez José Antonio JA Whittington Miles A MA Lightowlers Robert N RN Turnbull Doug M DM
Brain : a journal of neurology 20100305 Pt 3
Mutations in the mitochondrial genome are associated with a wide range of neurological symptoms, but many aspects of the basic neuronal pathology are not understood. One candidate mechanism, given the well-established role of mitochondria in calcium buffering, is a deficit in neuronal calcium homoeostasis. We therefore examined calcium responses in the neurons derived from various 'cybrid' embryonic stem cell lines carrying different mitochondrial DNA mutations. Brief ( approximately 50 ms), foc ...[more]