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November 1, 1993

Mitochondria1 respiratory chain activity in skeletal muscle from patients with Parkinson's disease

November 1993 issue
43 (11) 2258

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Different abnormalities in mitochondrial electron transport chain activity have been demonstrated in muscle and other tissues of patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). We studied eight Spanish patients with PD to evaluate the functional activity of the electron transport chain in muscle mitochondria from patients of this country. We found lower complex I activity (nmol.min-1.mg−1) in patients (245.8 ± 42.8) than in controls (331.6 ± 60.1) (p = 0.004) and lower complex IV activity in patients (46.1 ± 9) than in controls (144.1 ± 42.3) (p = 0.00001). Complex V activity was also decreased in two patients and complex II and III activities were normal in all of them. Although these results strongly suggest an alteration in mitochondrial DNA in PD, the various electron transport chain defects in different tissues seem to be nonspecific.

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Neurology®
Volume 43Number 11November 1993
Pages: 2258
PubMed: 8232939

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F. Cardellach, MD
Muscle Research Unit, Departments of General Internal Medicine (Drs. Cardellach, Fernández-Solá, and Urbano-Márquez) and Neurology (Drs. Martí, Marín, and Tolosa), Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain, and the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology (Dr. Hoek), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
M. J. Martí, MD
Muscle Research Unit, Departments of General Internal Medicine (Drs. Cardellach, Fernández-Solá, and Urbano-Márquez) and Neurology (Drs. Martí, Marín, and Tolosa), Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain, and the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology (Dr. Hoek), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
J. Fernández-Solá, MD
Muscle Research Unit, Departments of General Internal Medicine (Drs. Cardellach, Fernández-Solá, and Urbano-Márquez) and Neurology (Drs. Martí, Marín, and Tolosa), Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain, and the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology (Dr. Hoek), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
C. Marín, MD
Muscle Research Unit, Departments of General Internal Medicine (Drs. Cardellach, Fernández-Solá, and Urbano-Márquez) and Neurology (Drs. Martí, Marín, and Tolosa), Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain, and the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology (Dr. Hoek), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
J. B. Hoek, PhD
Muscle Research Unit, Departments of General Internal Medicine (Drs. Cardellach, Fernández-Solá, and Urbano-Márquez) and Neurology (Drs. Martí, Marín, and Tolosa), Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain, and the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology (Dr. Hoek), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
E. Tolosa, MD
Muscle Research Unit, Departments of General Internal Medicine (Drs. Cardellach, Fernández-Solá, and Urbano-Márquez) and Neurology (Drs. Martí, Marín, and Tolosa), Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain, and the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology (Dr. Hoek), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
A. Urbano-Márquez, MD
Muscle Research Unit, Departments of General Internal Medicine (Drs. Cardellach, Fernández-Solá, and Urbano-Márquez) and Neurology (Drs. Martí, Marín, and Tolosa), Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain, and the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology (Dr. Hoek), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.

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