REVIEW: Bioenergetics and Death

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B. V. Chernyak^*, O. Yu. Pletjushkina, D. S. Izyumov, K. G. Lyamzaev, and A. V. Avetisyan

Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia; fax: (7-095) 939-3181; E-mail: bchernyak@yahoo.com

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed.

Received September 20, 2004

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Specific inhibitors of mitochondrial functions were used in studies on the relation between bioenergetics and programmed cell death. The data of the authors are discussed in the review.

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KEY WORDS: mitochondria, respiration, membrane potential, ATP synthesis, apoptosis, necrosis

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