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Grand Rounds: Could Occupational Exposure to n-Hexane and Other Solvents Precipitate Visual Failure in Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy?

CONTEXT: Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a maternally inherited loss of central vision related to pathogenic mutations in the mitochondrial genome, which are a necessary but not sufficient condition to develop the disease. Investigation of precipitating environmental/occupational (and ad...

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Autores principales: Carelli, Valerio, Franceschini, Flavia, Venturi, Silvia, Barboni, Piero, Savini, Giacomo, Barbieri, Giuseppe, Pirro, Ettore, La Morgia, Chiara, Valentino, Maria L., Zanardi, Francesca, Violante, Francesco S., Mattioli, Stefano
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1797843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17366829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.9245