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alpha-Tocopherol/lipid ratio in blood is decreased in patients with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy and asymptomatic carriers of the 11778 mtDNA mutation.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Mar 2001
Klivenyi P, Karg E, Rozsa C, Horvath R, Komoly S, Nemeth I, Turi S, Vecsei L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a maternally inherited disease characterised by acute or subacute bilateral visual loss in young patients. The primary aetiological event is a mutation in the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) affecting in most cases mtDNA-encoded subunits of the respiratory chain NADH: coenzyme Q oxidoreductase (complex I). The impaired function of complex I leads to a decline...
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