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RE: Mitochondrial medicine: Fact or fiction? Part III – What's the best strategy to deal with mitochondrial dysfunctions?

in #english5 years ago

Hey @gentleshaid,

thanks for coming by. In fact, depending on the cell type of choice you have variations in the number of mitochondria. Metabolic highly active cells (liver cells or cardiac muscle cells) have thousands of mitochondria per cell. Immune cells (lymphocytes), in contrast, have sometimes less than 100 up to a few hundred mitochondria per cell. The more energy they produce the more mitochondria you need. However, in the neutrophils (also immune cells but almost no mitochondrial ATP) only 5-6 mitochondria are present per cell.

I hope this answers your question

Have a nice weekend

Chapper