Contact sites between mitochondrial membranes: comments.
Extensive contact sites between the two mitochondrial membranes are visualized particularly when tissues are prepared by freeze-substitution methods for electron microscopy. Such contacts rapidly diminish if animals are asphyxiated even for a relatively short period of 8 min. Thus contacts between the mitochondrial membranes are likely to be labile.
Malhotra
S K
SK
Department of Zoology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Tewari
J P
JP
D000818:Animals; D001237:Asphyxia / Q000473:pathology*; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005615:Freezing; D007425:Intracellular Membranes / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008099:Liver / Q000648:ultrastructure; D051379:Mice; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D010179:Pancreas / Q000648:ultrastructure; D051381:Rats; D014021:Tissue Preservation / Q000379:methods