Effect of coenzyme Q10 in patients with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS): Evaluation by noninvasive tissue oximetry

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-68

  Abe, Kazuo ^a,b   Matsuo, Yoshimi ^b   Kadekawa, Jun ^a,b   Inoue, Satoru ^b   Yanagihara, Takehiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coenzyme Q10; Encephalopathy; Lactic acidosis; Mitochondrial myopathy; Near infrared spectra of hemoglobin; Stroke like episodes (MELAS); Tissue oximetry

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; UBIDECARENONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETER; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD VOLUME; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; UBIQUINONE;

EID: 0032944976     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(98)00296-2     Document Type: Article

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