Juvenile form of Alexander disease with GFAP mutation and mitochondrial abnormality

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1302-1304

  Nobuhara, Y ^a,b   Nakahara, K ^b   Higuchi, I ^a   Yoshida, T ^c   Fushiki, S ^c   Osame, M ^a   Arimura, K ^a   Nakagawa, M ^c  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MIYAZAKI PREFECTURAL MIYAZAKI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ALEXANDER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SYMPTOM; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 5344244752     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000140695.90497.E2     Document Type: Article

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