Preface .......................................................... I
Chapter 1 ATP at a Crossroads: Cell Life or Death? .............. 1
A. Atlante, A. Bobba, E. Marra and S. Passarella
Chapter 2 Bioenergetics of Closed Ecological Systems: Effects
of Carbon Sources .................................... 51
Frieda B. Taub
Chapter 3 The Role of Mitochondria in the Glucose Metabolism ... 97
L. de Bari, A. Atlante and S. Passarella
Chapter 4 Mitochondrial Dysfunction Produced by Zn (II) or
Selenite: A Comparison with Cd (II) and Ca (II) ..... 131
Elena A. Belyaeva
Chapter 5 Extramitochondrial Aerobic Metabolism in Retinal
Rod Outer Segment Disks ............................. 151
Isabella Panfoli
Chapter 6 Bioenergetics and Male Infertility: From Basic
Science to Clinical Andrology ....................... 165
Alexandra Amaral, Ana Paula Sousa, Pedro Caballero
Campo, Pedro Caballero Peregrín and João Ramalho-
Santos
Chapter 7 Identification of Specific Mitochondrial Proteins
Forming Stable Adducts with 4-Hydroxynonenal
within Cardiac Tissue of Type-I Diabetic Animals:
Implications for Bioenergetics Dysfunction and
Onset of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy .................... 183
Gregg DiNuoscio, Chao Yuan, Ossama Lashin and
Andrea Romani
Chapter 8 Simultaneous Fluorescence and Reflection Confocal
Microscopy Study of Living Osteoblast
Bioenergetics as a Tool for the Design of Surface
Topography of Dental Implants ....................... 217
Mercedes Salido, J. Ignacio Vilches-Perez and Jose
Vilches
Commentary Screening and Studying Photosynthetic Mutants:
Basics and Beyond ................................... 239
Xenie Johnson, Laura Houille-Vernes and Jean Alric
Index .......................................................... 245
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