Mitochondrial Myopathy (MITO)

Definition — a group of diseases affecting the mitochondria, tiny energy factories found inside almost all our cells, that also interferes with the function of muscles. The group is comprised of Kearns-Sayre syndrome, Leigh’s syndrome, mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDS), mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and strokelike episodes (MELAS), myoclonus epilepsy with ragged red fibers (MERRF), mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE), neuropathy, ataxia and retinitis pigmentosa (NARP), progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO)

Cause — defects in genes that produce proteins that process food into energy inside cells; the protein affected determines which of the mitochondrial diseases is present

http://www.mdausa.org/disease/mito.cfm

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of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Is this another autoimmune metabolic dysfunction syndrome? * 

 

States someone from France, "I'm convinced that metabolic features (changes in cholesterol and lipid profile, changes in glucose uptake and cell use, mitochondrial diseases and so on) are among main underestimated issue of 2-BE"

... mitochondrial diseases (defined restrictively as defects in the mitochondrial respiratory chain) ... 

 

as being caused by exposures to 2-butoxyethanol EGBE.

Has there been a dramatic increase in these since WWII?

MSDS fo 2-butoxyethanol

Help for Vietnam Vets - 'Gulf War Syndrome' Vets?

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