Profile
International Journal of Community & Family Medicine Volume 3 (2018), Article ID 3:IJCFM-145, 1 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2018/145
Letters to the Editor
Correlations Between Mitochondrial Biomarkers without Considering Heteroplasmy Rates Remain Vague

Josef Finsterer1,* and Sinda Zarrouk-Mahjoub2

1Rudolfstiftung, Messerli Institute, Veterinary University of Vienna, Austria
2University of Tunis El Manar and Genomics Platform, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunisia
Dr. Josef Finsterer, Krankenanstalt Rudolfstiftung, Postfach 20, 1180 Vienna , Austria, Europe, Tel. +43-1-71165-72085, Fax. +43-1- 4781711; E-mail: fifigs1@yahoo.de
10 October 2018; 20 October 2018; 22 October 2018
Finsterer J, Zarrouk-Mahjoub S (2018) Correlations Between Mitochondrial Biomarkers without Considering Heteroplasmy Rates Remain Vague. Int J Community Fam Med 3: 145. https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2018/145

References

  1. Lee HN, Yoon CS, Lee YM (2018) Correlation of Serum Biomarkers and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Monitoring Disease Progression in Patients With Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-Like Episodes Due to mtDNA A3243G Mutation. Front Neurol 9: 621 [CrossRef] [Google Scholar] [PubMed]
  2. El-Hattab AW, Emrick LT, Hsu JW, Chanprasert S, Almannai M, et al. (2016) Impaired nitric oxide production in children with MELAS syndrome and the effect of arginine and citrulline supplementation. Mol Genet Metab 117: 407-412 [CrossRef] [Google Scholar] [PubMed]
  3. Chatzikonstantinou A, Ebert AD, Hennerici MG (2015) Cerebrospinal fluid findings after epileptic seizures. Epileptic Disord 17: 453-459 [CrossRef] [Google Scholar] [PubMed]
  4. Lee HN, Eom S, Kim SH, Kang HC, Lee JS, et al. (2016) Epilepsy Characteristics and Clinical Outcome in Patients With Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-Like Episodes (MELAS). Pediatr Neurol 64: 59-65 [CrossRef] [Google Scholar] [PubMed]