MELAS: Clinical features, muscle biopsy and molecular genetics

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 67, Issue 3 A, 2009, Pages 668-676

  Lorenzoni, Paulo José ^a   Scola, Rosana H ^a   Kamoi Kay, Cláudia S ^a   Arndt, Raquel C ^a   Freund, Aline A ^a   Bruck, Isac ^a   Santos, Mara Lúcia S F ^b   Werneck, Lineu C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL PEQUENO PRÍNCIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Genetics; MELAS; Mitochondrial DNA; Mitochondrial myopathies

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; LACTIC ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRAZIL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMENTIA; DENERVATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; EYE DISEASE; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOPATHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SHORT STATURE; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

EID: 69749111989     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2009000400018     Document Type: Article

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