[Possible approach to evaluating the energy potential of mitochondria in morphological studies].

Based on histoenzymatic, cytospectrophotometric, electron microscopy and stereometric studies of the activity of mitochondrial enzymes and mitochondrial areas the authors developed integral indicators of the mitochondrial energy potential. The indicators permit forming a more concrete and complete judgement about the structural and functional status of the mitochondria and cell on the whole as well as about the contribution to the maintenance of intracellular homeostasis of individual substrates and components of redox processes, which widens the diagnostic and prognostic potentialities of the morphological and cytological assay.