Mena, Natalia P.; Urrutia, Pamela J.; Lourido, Fernanda; Carrasco, Carlos M.; Núñez González, Marco(Elsevier, 2015)
Synthesis of the iron-containing prosthetic groups—heme and iron–sulfur clusters—occurs in mitochondria. The
mitochondrion is also an important producer of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are derived fromelectrons
leaking ...
Cholesterol plays an important role in inducing pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction, characterized by an impaired insulin secretory response to glucose, representing a hallmark of the transition from pre-diabetes to diabetes. ...
At high altitudes, hypoxia, oxidative stress or both compromise sheep fertility. In the present work,
we tested the relative effect of short- or long-term exposure to high altitude hypobaric hypoxia and oxidative stress
on ...