Sensitivity to jerky gene dosage underlies epileptic seizures in mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4562-4569

  Donovan, Gerald P ^a   Harden, Cynthia ^a   Gal, Judit ^a   Ho, Lap ^a   Sibille, Etienne ^a   Trifiletti, Rosario ^a   Gudas, Lorraine J ^a   Toth, Miklos ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

c Fos; Epilepsy; Gene dosage; Haploinsufficiency; In situ hybridization; Jerky gene; PTZ; Seizure

Indexed keywords

PENTETRAZOLE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HEMIZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0030925348     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-12-04562.1997     Document Type: Article

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