Memory loss in old rats is associated with brain mitochondrial decay and RNA/DNA oxidation: partial reversal by feeding acetyl-L-carnitine and/or R-alpha -lipoic acid.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on February 19, 2002

Authors

Jiankang Liu1, Elizabeth Head, Afshin M Gharib, Wenjun Yuan, Russell T Ingersoll, Tory M Hagen, Carl W Cotman, Bruce N Ames

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1: Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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