Patients with Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex Deficiency Develop Neurological Symptoms

question 52

Multiple Choice

Patients with pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency develop neurological symptoms. Patients with this disease fail to make the substrates required for which metabolic process?

• A) pyruvate oxidation
• B) oxidative phosphorylation
• C) glycolysis
• D) the citric acid cycle
• E) fatty acid oxidation

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