Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: A critical review

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 442, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 642-651

  Sutor, Bernd ^a   Zolles, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

4 subunit; 2 subunit; Epilepsy; Frontal lobe; Neocortex; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NEOCORTEX; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; REVIEW; SLEEP; SYNDROME DELINEATION; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; INFANT; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SLEEP;

EID: 0034872386     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004240100614     Document Type: Review

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