Mitochondrial Medicine Mitochondrial Metabolism, Diseases, Diagnosis and Therapy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gvozdjáková, Anna (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Pharmacy.; Medicine.; Human physiology.; Immunology.; Neurosciences.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Human Physiology.

Mitochondrial Medicine is a relatively new area where several disciplines from basic science to clinical medicine converge. Mitochondrial medicine deals with diseases that are related to mitochondrial dysfunction due to a number of causes from free radical damage to genetic mutation. A primary featu...

Table of Contents:

• Mitochondrial Physiology
• Oxidants, Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress
• Chronobiology, Chronomics and N-of-1 Tests of Timing Coenzyme Q10
• Methods of Chronobiometric Analysis of Mitochondrial Function
• Mitochondrial Medicine
• Mitochondrial Cardiology
• Mitochondria of the Human Transplanted Heart
• Mitochondrial Diabetology
• Mitochondrial Nephrology
• Mitochondrial Bioenergetics of Skeletal Muscles
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Mitochondrial Immunology
• Mitochondrial “Spermatopathy”
• Methods for Diagnosis of Mitochondrial Diseases
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Clinical Aspects of Coenzyme Q10 in Relationship with Its Bioenergetic and Antioxidant Properties
• Coenzyme Q10 Supplementation in Clinical Medicine
• Coenzyme Q10 Supplementation in Experimental Medicine
• Omega-3-PUFA, Omega-6-PUFA and Mitochondria
• Carnitine
• Vitamins in Mitochondrial Function
• Polarized Light.