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Very-long-chain acyl-coenzyme a dehydrogenase deficiency in mice.
Circulation research - 5 Sept 2003
Exil Vernat J, Roberts Richard L, Sims Harold, McLaughlin Jacquelin E, Malkin Robert A, Gardner Carla D, Ni Gemin, Rottman Jeffrey N, Strauss Arnold W
Abstract excerpt
Fatty acid oxidation (FAO) defects are inborn errors of metabolism clinically associated with cardiomyopathy and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). FAO disorders often present in infancy with myocardial dysfunction and arrhythmias after exposure to stresses such as fasting, exercise, or intercurrent viral illness. It is uncertain whether the heart, in the absence of stress, is normal. We generated...
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