An infant with a mitochondrial A3243G mutation demonstrating the MELAS phenotype

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 235-238

  Kanaumi, Takeshi ^a   Hirose, Shinichi ^a   Goto, Yu Ichi ^b   Naitou, Etsuo ^c   Mitsudome, Akihisa ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; GENE MUTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE;

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDES; BIOPSY; BRAIN; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEIZURES;

EID: 33644521249     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2005.08.024     Document Type: Article

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