Article
Clinical features of MELAS and mitochondrial DNA mutations.
Muscle & nerve. Supplement - 1 Jan 1995
Goto Y
Abstract excerpt
MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and strokelike episodes) is a distinct disorder characterized clinically by repeated strokelike attacks mostly beginning in childhood. We have paid special attention to the blood vessel abnormality seen in most biopsied muscle, in ter...
Topics
- Blood Vessels
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Humans
- MELAS Syndrome
- MERRF Syndrome
- Muscles
- Mutation
- Ophthalmoplegia
- RNA, Transfer, Lys
- Succinate Dehydrogenase