Cell energy basics
What organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell”?
What is the mitochondria?
Mitochondrial disease is mainly caused by problems with what inside cells?
What is energy production?
What is the most common symptom related to energy problems?
What is tiredness?
There is currently no cure, but doctors try to do this to symptoms.
What is manage / slow them?
Some babies with mitochondrial disease seem healthy at birth but later become very tired and stop eating.
What is early symptom development?
What molecule is the main energy currency cells use?
What is ATP?
Are mitochondrial diseases usually genetic or caused by injury?
What is genetic?
Name one muscle symptom of mitochondrial disease.
What is muscle weakness or muscle pain?
Some patients take these to help cell function.
What are vitamins / supplements?
Some children with mitochondrial disease need this machine to help them breathe.
What is a ventilator / breathing machine?
What process inside mitochondria makes most ATP for cells?
What is the electron transport chain
Can mitochondrial disease affect one organ or multiple organs?
What is multiple organs?
Name one sense that can be affected.
Doctors often start testing using this body fluid.
What is blood?
Some kids with mitochondrial disease experience these sudden brain events caused by low energy.
What are seizures or stroke-like episodes?
Why are brain and muscle cells often affected first in mitochondrial disease?
What is they need a lot of energy?
True or False: mitochondrial disease can appear at any age.
what is TRUE?
Name one neurological symptom.
What is seizures, migraines, or developmental delay?
This scan can show problems in the brain structure.
What is an MRI?
Families of kids with mitochondrial disease may spend weeks at a time in this place for treatment.
What is the hospital?
What happens to cells if mitochondria can’t make enough ATP?
What is cells and organs can’t function properly or may be damaged?
Some mitochondrial DNA is inherited only from which parent?
Mother
Why do symptoms vary a lot between people?
What is different cells have different amounts of healthy mitochondria?
Doctors may test hearing and this other sense affected by mitochondrial disease.
What is vision?
Why can mitochondrial disease affect many organs at once?
Because mitochondria provide energy for almost all cells in the body.