Mitochondrial ataxias

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 543-553

  Finsterer, Josef ^a,b  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; UBIQUINONE;

ALPERS DISEASE; ATAXIA; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT OPTIC ATROPHY; CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE EXTERNAL OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; COENZYME Q DEFICIENCY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENE MUTATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEREDITARY ATAXIA; HUMAN; INFANTILE ONSET SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA; KEARNS SAYRE SYNDROME; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; LEIGH DISEASE; MATERNALLY INHERITED DIABETES AND DEAFNESS; MELAS SYNDROME; MERRF SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL RECESSIVE ATAXIA SYNDROME; MNGIE SYNDROME; MULTIPLE SYSTEMIC LIPOMATOSIS; MUTATION; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY MYOPATHY AND SENSORY ATAXIA; NARP SYNDROME; NEUROPATHY; PEARSON SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; SENSORY ATAXIC NEUROPATHY, DYSARTHRIA, OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA AND EPILEPSY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WOLFRAM SYNDROME; X LINKED SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA;

ATAXIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION;

EID: 69549126358     PISSN: 03171671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0317167100008027     Document Type: Review

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