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Metabolic myopathies.
Current rheumatology reports - 1 Oct 2010
DiMauro Salvatore, Garone Caterina, Naini Ali
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We consider recent developments in disorders affecting three areas of metabolism: glycogen, fatty acids, and the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Among the glycogenoses, new attention has been directed to defects of glycogen synthesis resulting in absence rather than excess of muscle glycogen ("aglycogenosis"). These include defects of glycogen synthetase and defects of glycogenin, the primer of glycogen...
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