MELAS syndrome, diabetes and thyroid disease: The role of mitochondrial oxidative stress

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 340-341

  Tan, Tricia M M ^a   Caputo, Carmela ^a   Medici, Francesco ^b   Pambakian, Alidz L ^a   Dornhorst, Anne ^a   Meeran, Karim ^a   Williams, Graham R ^a   Khoo, Bernard ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBIMAZOLE; LEVOTHYROXINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; UBIDECARENONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LETTER; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MTTL1 GENE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID DISEASE; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MELAS SYNDROME; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROID DISEASES;

EID: 58549108191     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03341.x     Document Type: Letter

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