| Literature DB >> 21068308 |
Olga Ciccarelli1, Ahmed T Toosy, Nicola De Stefano, Claudia A M Wheeler-Kingshott, David H Miller, Alan J Thompson.
Abstract
Mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to the pathogenesis of many neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS), but is not directly measurable in vivo. We modeled N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA), which reflects axonal structural integrity and mitochondrial metabolism, with imaging measures of axonal structural integrity (axial diffusivity and cord cross-sectional area) to extract its mitochondrial metabolic contribution. Lower residual variance in NAA, reflecting reduced mitochondrial metabolism, was associated with greater clinical disability in MS, independent of structural damage.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 21068308 PMCID: PMC3044872 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3330-10.2010
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurosci ISSN: 0270-6474 Impact factor: 6.167