Mitochondria are cytoplasmic organelles found in most eukaryotic cells. They are formed from an outer membrane, a highly invaginated inner membrane containing cristae, and a matrix. Mitochondria ...

Most of us remember two things from high school biology: that mitochondria are the powerhouses of cells and that we inherit stable sets of chromosomes from our two parents. Both truisms are only ...

The total bacterial DNA from the ileal contents (about 100 mg each sample) was extracted by a QIAamp Fast Stool Mini Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) according to the manufacturer’s instructions and was ...

Histological sections were stained by Masson’s Trichrome using the Ventana BenchMark automatic staining machine (Roche, France) with the Trichrome staining kit (LOT: K07708), which is a commonly used ...