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Intramyocellular lipid excess in the mitochondrial disorder MELAS
26 May 2017
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OBJECTIVE: There is a paucity of objective, quantifiable indicators of mitochondrial disease available for clinical and scientific investigation. METHODS: To this end, we explore intramyocellular lipid (IMCL) accumulation noninvasively by 7T magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) as a reporter of metabolic dysfunction in MELAS (mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes). We...
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