Mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation defects - Remaining challenges

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 643-657

  Gregersen, Niels ^a,b   Andresen, Brage S ^a   Pedersen, Christina B ^a   Olsen, Rikke K J ^a   Corydon, Thomas J ^a   Bross, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTYRYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; MEDIUM CHAIN ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOFLAVIN SYNTHASE; UBIDECARENONE;

ARTICLE; BUTYRYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; MEDIUM CHAIN ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RIBOFLAVIN RESPONSIVE MULTIPLE ACYL COA DEHYDROGENATION; RNA PROCESSING;

ACYL-COA DEHYDROGENASE; BUTYRYL-COA DEHYDROGENASE; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIPLE ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 56049114390     PISSN: 01418955     EISSN: 15732665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10545-008-0990-y     Document Type: Article

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