Muscle carnitine acetyltransferase and carnitine deficiency in a case of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 827-838

  Melegh, B ^a,b   Seress, L ^a   Bedekovics, T ^a   Kispal G ^a   Sumegi B ^a   Trombitas K ^a   Mehes K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARNITINE DEFICIENCY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PURKINJE CELL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPASTICITY;

BRAIN; CARNITINE; CARNITINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CELL DEGRANULATION; CHILD; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; MITOCHONDRIA, LIVER; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHIES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PURKINJE CELLS;

EID: 0032821980     PISSN: 01418955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005562209034     Document Type: Article

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