L-arginine improves the symptoms of strokelike episodes in MELAS

Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 710-712

  Koga, Yasutoshi ^a   Akita, Y ^a   Nishioka, J ^a   Yatsuga, S ^a   Povalko, N ^a,d   Tanabe, Y ^b   Fujimoto, S ^c   Matsuishi, Toyojiro ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHIBA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MIGRAINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS; VASODILATATION; VOMITING;

EID: 13844321746     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000151976.60624.01     Document Type: Article

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