Myoclonus in mitochondrial disorders

Movement Disorders

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 722-728

  Mancuso, Michelangelo ^a   Orsucci, Daniele ^a   Angelini, Corrado ^b   Bertini, Enrico ^c   Catteruccia, Michela ^c   Pegoraro, Elena ^b   Carelli, Valerio ^d,e   Valentino, Maria L ^d,e   Comi, Giacomo P ^f   Minetti, Carlo ^g   Bruno, Claudio ^g   Moggio, Maurizio ^f   Ienco, Elena Caldarazzo ^a   Mongini, Tiziana ^h   Vercelli, Liliana ^h   Primiano, Guido ⁱ   Servidei, Serenella ⁱ   Tonin, Paola ^j   Scarpelli, Mauro ^j   Toscano, Antonio ^k   Musumeci, Olimpia ^k   Moroni, Isabella ^l   Uziel, Graziella ^l   Santorelli, Filippo M ^m   Nesti, Claudia ^m   Filosto, Massimiliano ⁿ   Lamperti, Costanza ^l   Zeviani, Massimo ^l   Siciliano, Gabriele ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d BELLARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

ⁱ CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^l DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^m DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

8344A>G; Ataxia; mtDNA; Myoclonic epilepsy; Myoclonus

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CREATINE KINASE; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; ALPERS DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DYSKINESIA; DYSTONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEIGH DISEASE; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MERRF SYNDROME; MIGRAINE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; MYOCLONUS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROPATHY; ONSET AGE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; RETINOPATHY; SEIZURE; SWALLOWING; TREMOR; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPLICATION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MYOCLONUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899951098     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25839     Document Type: Article

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