Mitochondrial Myopathy, Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like Episodes with Deterioration during Pregnancy

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 780-783

  Yanagawa, Takuya ^a   Sakaguchi, Hidenobu ^a   Nakao, Taisei ^a   Sasaki, Hideyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Gensaku ^a   Sanke, Tokio ^a   Nanjo, Kishio ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delivery; Mitochondrial encephalomyopathies; Mutation; Neuropathy; tRNALeu

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CODON; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; POINT MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STRESS;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; POINT MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; STRESS;

EID: 0032151603     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.780     Document Type: Article

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