Revisiting the issue of mitochondrial dna contentinopticmitochondriopathies

Neurology

Volumn 79, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1517-1519

  Iommarini, Luisa ^a   Maresca, Alessandra ^a,b   Caporali, Leonardo ^a,b   Valentino, Maria Lucia ^a,b   Liguori, Rocco ^a,b   Giordano, Carla ^c   Carelli, Valerio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO DELLE SCIENZE NEUROLOGICHE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; OPA1 GENE; OPTIC MITOCHONDRIOPATHY; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

EID: 84867566787     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31826d5f72     Document Type: Article

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