Moderate loss of function of cyclic-AMP-modulated KCNQ2/KCNQ3 K+ channels causes epilepsy

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6712, 1998, Pages 687-690

  Schroeder, Björn C ^a   Kubisch, Christian ^a   Stein, Valentin ^a   Jentsch, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLIC AMP; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; KCNQ2 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; KCNQ3 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; POINT MUTATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032542232     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25367     Document Type: Article

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