Mutations of voltage-gated sodium channels in movement disorders and epilepsy

Novartis Foundation Symposium

Volumn 241, Issue , 2002, Pages 72-86

  Meisler, Miriam H ^a   Kearney, Jennifer A ^a   Sprunger, Leslie K ^a   MacDonald, Bryan T ^a   Buchner, David A ^a   Escayg, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE PROTEIN; SCN1A PROTEIN; SCN2A PROTEIN; SCN8A PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EPILEPSY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SODIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHANNELS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0036134242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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