Muscle fatigue, lactate, and pyruvate in mitochondrial myopathy with progressive external ophthalmoplegia

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 456-462

  Dengler, Reinhard ^a   Wohlfarth, Kai ^a   Zierz, Stephan ^b   Jöbges, Michael ^a   Schubert, Margot ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

lactate; mitochondrial myopathy; muscle fatigue; progressive external ophthalmoplegia; pyruvate

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; EXTERNAL OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULNAR NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTATES; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHIES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA, CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE EXTERNAL; PYRUVATES; PYRUVIC ACID;

EID: 0029935209     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199604)19:4<456::AID-MUS5>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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