Wu SN, Li HF, Chiang HT Department of Medical Education and Research, Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China. A small organelle found inside of all cells that makes the energy molecules of the cell.
Exercise promotes the formation of more mitochondria.
Aim of recent studies is to elucidate conditions for the transformation of cell respiration to a source of toxic oxygen radicals. The data of 466 subjects suffering from neurologic disorders which are suggested to be caused by neurotoxic agents in their environment retrospectively was evaluated and documented. Age and gender of cases as well as duration and character of exposure to neurotoxic substances retrospectively were assessed from the explicit files of the patients, which had been made anonymous for this purpose. Frequency of characteristic symptoms of neurotoxicity were analysed. This work is not a controlled epidemiological study but a retrospective documentation and evaluation of data related to environmental medicine.