Incidence of intermembrane alterations in human heart mitochondria: a preliminary ultrastructural study.
An alteration consisting of widening of the inner membrane space (approximately 240 A) of the human heart mitochondria was studied and compared in surgical and autopsy material. The presence of these changes in well-preserved surgical material suggests that it may be a morphologic manifestation of an unknown biochemical alteration.
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