Two novel mitochondrial DNA mutations in muscle tissue of a patient with limb-girdle myopathy

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1339-1343

  Meulemans, Ann ^a   De Paepe, Boel ^c   De Bleecker, Jan ^c   Smet, Joél ^c   Lissens, Willy ^a   Van Coster, Rudy ^c   De Meirleir, Linda ^b   Seneca, Sara ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MYOPATHY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES, LIMB-GIRDLE; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 34548658619     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.64.9.1339     Document Type: Article

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