From proliferative to neurological role of an hsp70 stress chaperone, mortalin

• Main Authors: Deocaris, Custer C., Kaul, Sunil C., Wadhwa, Renu
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2008
• Subjects: Molecular chaperones; Mitochondria; Oxidative stress; Nervous system—Degeneration; Developmental neurobiology; Biology; Neuroscience and Neurobiology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/5473
• Institution: De La Salle University

Although the brain makes up approximately 2% of a person's body weight, it consumes more than 15% of total cardiac output and has a per capita caloric requirement of 10 times more than the rest of the body. Such continuous metabolic demand that supports the generation of action potentials in ne...