Mitochondrial response to pathogenic odors (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Mitochondrial response to pathogenic odors

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Intestinal mitochondria in C. elegans are stained red. At left, a wild-type nematode exhibits a normal abundance of mitochondria. In the nematode at right, with its pathogen-associated circuit activated, the mitochondria are depleted. A new UC Berkeley study links activation of smell neurons by pathogen odors to mitochondrial depletion, called mitophagy.

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Julian Dishart and Andrew Dillin, UC Berkeley

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