If a father has a mitochondrial disease, he cannot pass it to his children.

Mitochondrial diseases often affect more than one organ system of the body.

This is one factor involved in the presentation of mitochondrial diseases.

It is a factor for the severity of mitochondrial diseases.

His contribution to neuroscience has been particularly strong in mitochondrial disease.

For example, the technology have been developed that could prevent inherited mitochondrial disease being passed on to the next generation.

Some forms may be more treatable than other mitochondrial diseases.

Complex I deficiency is the reason behind over thirty percent of human mitochondrial diseases.

The child died of mitochondrial disease, a genetic degenerative illness, on March 30.

For instance, mitochondrial diseases are characterised by ragged red fibers.

The technique represents a way to prevent the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases.

Mitochondrial disease leading to neurodegeneration is likely, at least on some level, to involve all of these functions.

Knowledge gained by the approach described here has obvious application to both the diagnosis and therapy of mitochondrial diseases.

Environmental influences may interact with hereditary predispositions and cause mitochondrial disease.

Because energy is essential for many tissue functions, mitochondrial diseases typically affect multiple organs of the body.

Mitochondrial diseases are very numerous and different.

New patterns of inheritance in mitochondrial disease.

Healthy mitochondria from a donor egg can now be used to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial disease to the next generation.

The disorder is a maternally inherited mitochondrial disease.

They include liver disease (relatively common) and so-called mitochondrial diseases (affecting the body's ability to use energy from food breakdown).

Mitochondrial diseases often hamper the ability of affected cells to break down food and oxygen and produce energy.

A mutation in the genes regulating any of these functions can result in mitochondrial diseases.

He is a trustee on the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation.

There are other factors involved in the manifestation of a mitochondrial disease besides the size and location of a mutation.