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Melas

MELAS

An acronym for mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactacidosis, and stroke; an inherited disorder of the respiratory chain, either a deficiency of nADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I of the chain) or of cytochrome c oxidase.


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