How does ACTH work against infantile spasms? Bedside to bench

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 288-289

  Carter Snead III, O ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN[1-39]; DOPAMINE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; INTERMEDIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; EDITORIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NONHUMAN; OPSOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; HUMANS; INFANT; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 0035089764     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.63     Document Type: Editorial

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