Low-protein diet and progression of retinal degeneration in gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina: A twenty-six-year follow-up

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 187-196

  Santinelli, R ^a   Costagliola, C ^b   Tolone, C ^a   D'Aloia, A ^a   D'Avanzo, A ^a   Prisco, F ^a   Perrone, L ^a   del Giudice, Emanuele Miraglia ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLYCINE; ORNITHINE OXOACID AMINOTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CHOROID GYRATE ATROPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPERORNITHINEMIA; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LONG TERM CARE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MITOCHONDRION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GYRATE ATROPHY; SPEECH DISORDER;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOROID; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GYRATE ATROPHY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE-OXO-ACID TRANSAMINASE; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 2942532720     PISSN: 01418955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BOLI.0000028779.29966.05     Document Type: Article

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