Research Article

Effects of Copper and/or Cholesterol Overload on Mitochondrial Function in a Rat Model of Incipient Neurodegeneration

Figure 7

Mitochondrial outer (a) and inner (b) membrane fluidities (fluorescence anisotropy) in suspension isolated from brain cortex. Treatments are indicated with different colors, control (white bars), Cu (black bars), Cho (gray bars), and CuCho (dark gray bars). Samples were analyzed as indicated in Section 2.9. Results are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation (SD) of 10 rats. Significant differences among the experimental groups are indicated with superscript letters (values with distinct letters are significantly different between them, ).
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(a) Cortex (OMM)
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(b) Cortex (IMM)