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The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol 55, 635-643, Copyright © 1972 by Rockefeller University Press

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EFFECTS OF CORTISONE ADMINISTRATION ON RAT LIVER MITOCHONDRIA : Support for the Concept of Mitochondrial Fusion



Daniel V. Kimberg 1 and John N. Loeb 1

1 From the Departments of Medicine of the Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York 10032

The present studies investigate the basis for the marked increase in mitochondrial size and approximately reciprocal decrease in mitochondrial number which have been observed in the livers of rats treated with cortisone acetate. Comparisons of the content and specific activity of mitochondrial DNA in the livers of control and cortisone-treated animals prelabeled with radioactive thymidine support the possibility that these changes in mitochondrial size and number are the result of a process of mitochondrial fusion. A consideration of various conditions now known to result in the formation of large mitochondria in other systems suggests that interference with mitochondrial respiration may provide a stimulus for such a process. The biochemical approach described in the present study may prove useful in investigating the origin of large mitochondria in other systems as well.

Submitted on May 15, 1972
Revised on July 13, 1972


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