Date of Award:
5-1-1983
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department:
Biology
Department name when degree awarded
Life Sciences:Biology
Committee Chair(s)
Gene W. Miller
Committee
Gene W. Miller
Abstract
The exposure of isolated plant mitochondria to solutions containing soluble fluorides results in abnormal physiologic activities. These aberrations include an increase of mitochondrial respiratory rates and decreases of the ADP/0 ratios. The changes of respiratory activity are an expression of a fluoride-induced chemiosmotic uncoupling of respiration and an inhibition of mitochondrial localized ATPase activity. The fluoride ion might be accumulating in the mitochondria via a nonionic diffusion gradient since no fluoride-induced mitochondrial membrane disruption could be detected.
Recommended Citation
Pushnik, James C., "The Effects of Fluoride on Isolated Corn Mitochondria: Membrane Properties and Oxidative Phosphorilation" (1983). Biology. 512.
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