Secondary Post-Geniculate Involvement in Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Rizzo, Giovanni ^a,b   Tozer, Kevin R ^c   Tonon, Caterina ^a   Manners, David ^a   Testa, Claudia ^a   Malucelli, Emil ^a   Valentino, Maria Lucia ^a,b   la Morgia, Chiara ^a,b   Barboni, Piero ^d   Randhawa, Ruvdeep S ^c   Ross Cisneros, Fred N ^c   Sadun, Alfredo A ^c   Carelli, Valerio ^a,b   Lodi, Raffaele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Studio Oculistico d'Azeglio   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CADAVER; CELL DENSITY; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENICULATE BODY; GLIOSIS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; OPTIC ATROPHY, HEREDITARY, LEBER; OPTIC NERVE; PHENYLENEDIAMINES; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84870267230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050230     Document Type: Article

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