Navajo neurohepatopathy: A mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome?

Hepatology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 116-120

  Vu, Tuan H ^a   Tanji, Kurenai ^a   Holve, Stephen A ^b   Bonilla, Eduardo ^a   Sokol, Ronald J ^c   Snyder, Russell D ^d   Fiore, Stephany ^e   Deutsch, Gail H ^a,f   DiMauro, Salvatore ^a   De Vivo, Darryl ^a,f  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Tuba City Indian Medical Center   (United States)

^c Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATINE KINASE; DNA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA ULCER; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFANT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NECROSIS; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC DISORDER; NAVAJO NEUROHEPATOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEATOSIS;

EID: 0034950509     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2001.25921     Document Type: Article

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