Detection of respiratory chain defects in cultivated skin fibroblasts and skeletal muscle of patients with Parkinson's disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 893, Issue , 1999, Pages 426-429

  Wiedemann, Falk Robert ^a   Winkler, Kirstin ^a   Lins, Hartmut ^a   Wallesch, Claus W ^a   Kunz, Wolfram S ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; PARKINSON DISEASE; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN FIBROBLAST;

EID: 0033373674     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07870.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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