Disruption of endothelial tight junctions in a patient with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS)

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 72-74

  Matsuzaki, M ^a,b   Takahashi, R ^a   Nakayama, T ^a   Shishikura, K ^a   Suzuki, H ^a   Hirayama, Y ^a   Osawa, M ^a   Oda, H ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hospital for the Disabled   (Japan)

Author keywords

disruption of endothelial tight junctions; lactic acidosis and stroke like episodes (MELAS); mitochondrial encephalomyopathy; tight junctions

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; LACTIC ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PYRUVIC ACID; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CHILD; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERAMYLASEMIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LETHARGY; MELAS SYNDROME; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIGRAINE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SEIZURE; TIGHT JUNCTION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELAS SYNDROME; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POINT MUTATION; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 77956261183     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1261886     Document Type: Article

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