Childhood absence epilepsy: Genes, channels, neurons and networks

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 371-382

  Crunelli, Vincenzo ^a   Leresche, Nathalie ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHILD; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; GENES; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0036584661     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn811     Document Type: Review

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