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Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 146860, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/146860
Review Article

Adenine Nucleotide Translocase, Mitochondrial Stress, and Degenerative Cell Death

Yaxin Liu and Xin Jie Chen

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA

Received 10 May 2013; Revised 14 June 2013; Accepted 24 June 2013

Academic Editor: Sergio Giannattasio

Copyright © 2013 Yaxin Liu and Xin Jie Chen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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