Basic & Clinical Medicine ›› 2021, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (12): 1838-1842.

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Research progress of mitochondrial transplantation

WANG Yi-chuan, LIU Xiao-jing*, YE Feng, YANG Xue-liang, CHEN Na, WU Jian-hua, LI Yan-lin   

  1. Department of Infection, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710016, China
  • Received:2021-03-12 Revised:2021-07-12 Published:2021-12-03
  • Contact: *xiaojing406@163.com

Abstract: Mitochondria provides most of the energy to drive cell function, and its dysfunction can lead to a variety of disease. Since mitochondria has been proved to be able to transfer between cells, mitochondrial transplantation has become an innovative idea for the treatment of mitochondrial dysfunction and this technology has been supported by evidences from animal experiments. The transplantation of mitochondrial is potentially applied in the treatment of disease of various tissues including heart, liver, lung and brain.

Key words: mitochondrial transplantation, mitochondrial therapy

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