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Epilepsy and Respiratory Chain Defects in Children with Mitochondrial Encephalopathies

DOI

72

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2008

Year

Divya S. Khurana, Leon Salganicoff, J. Melvin, Elizabeth F. Hobdell, Ignacio Leyva-Valencia, H. Huntley Hardison, Harold G. Marks, Warren D. Grover, Agustín Legido
Neuropediatrics

Abstract

Epilepsy is an important component of ME. The higher incidence of complex I defects in patients with epilepsy suggests a possible relationship between mitochondrial oxidative stress dysfunction and epileptogenic process.