Complications associated with genetic background effects in models of experimental epilepsy

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 135, Issue , 2002, Pages 139-148

  Schauwecker, P Elyse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE MODEL; EPILEPSY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; INBRED STRAIN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0036454473     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(02)35014-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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