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For more than a decade now blue native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (BN-PAGE) has been used for the study of the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) complexes. Catalytic activities of complexes I, II, IV ...
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Open AccessMitochondrial mosaics in the liver of 3 infants with mtDNA defects
In muscle cytochrome oxidase (COX) negative fibers (mitochondrial mosaics) have often been visualized.