Review: mitochondrial defects in breast cancer

Mitochondria play important roles in cellular energy metabolism, free radical generation, and apoptosis. Mitochondrial DNA has been proposed to be involved in carcinogenesis because of its high susceptibility to mutations and limited repair mechanisms in comparison to nuclear D...

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Main Authors: Salgado, J. (Josefa), Honorato-Cía, B. (Beatriz), Garcia-Foncillas, J. (Jesús)
Format: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Language:eng
Published: Libertas Academica 2012
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/23383