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  • Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Butterworth-Heinemann International Medical Reviews; Copyright; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: The structural organization of the mitochondrial respiratory chain; Publisher Summary; INTRODUCTION; COMPLEX I; COMPLEX II; COMPLEX III; COMPLEX IV; COMPLEX V; Chapter 2: Mitochondrial DNA and the genetics of mitochondrial disease; Publisher Summary; INTRODUCTION; ORGANIZATION AND EXPRESSION OF THE HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MATERNAL INHERITANCE AND POPULATION GENETICS OF HUMAN mtDNA; LARGE-SCALE REARRANGEMENTS OF mtDNA
  • DELETIONS OF mtDNA IN NORMAL AGINGPOINT MUTATIONS IN mtDNA; DEPLETIONS OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; A NOVEL IN VITRO SYSTEM TO STUDY DEFECTS IN mtDNA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 3: Mitochondrial myopathies: clinical features, investigation, treatment and genetic counselling; Publisher Summary; CLINICAL FEATURES; INVESTIGATION; TREATMENT; GENETIC COUNSELLING IN MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHIES; Chapter 4: Biochemical and molecular features of deficiencies of Complexes I, II and III; Publisher Summary; INTRODUCTION; INVESTIGATIVE APPROACH; BLOOD SAMPLES; MUSCLE BIOPSY
  • HISTOCHEMICAL AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC FEATURESBIOCHEMICAL ANALYSES; MITOCHONDRIAL ISOLATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSES; ENZYME ANALYSES; ANALYSIS OF COMPONENTS OF THE RESPIRATORY CHAIN; CYTOCHROME ANALYSES; IRON-SULPHUR CENTRES; POLYPEPTIDE ANALYSES; DNA ANALYSES; MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS; TISSUE CULTURE; DISEASES OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATORY CHAIN; Chapter 5: Cytochrome oxidase deficiency: progress and problems; Publisher Summary; INTRODUCTION; THE ENZYME; THE DISEASES; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 6: Mitochondrial encephalomyopathies: lumping, splitting and melding