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Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
Volume 2017, Article ID 3064016, 15 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/3064016
Research Article

Increased Mitochondrial Mass and Cytosolic Redox Imbalance in Hippocampal Astrocytes of a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome: Subcellular Changes Revealed by Ratiometric Imaging of JC-1 and roGFP1 Fluorescence

Dörthe F. Bebensee,1,2 Karolina Can,1,2 and Michael Müller1,2

1Center for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CNMPB), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
2Zentrum Physiologie und Pathophysiologie, Institut für Neuro- und Sinnesphysiologie, Humboldtallee, 23 Göttingen, Germany

Correspondence should be addressed to Michael Müller; ed.gdwg@7elleumm

Received 15 March 2017; Revised 16 June 2017; Accepted 27 June 2017; Published 13 August 2017

Academic Editor: Icksoo Lee

Copyright © 2017 Dörthe F. Bebensee et al. 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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