Regulating the regulators: The role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in human epilepsy

Drug News and Perspectives

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 261-266

  Hogg, Ron C ^a   Bertrand, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALLELE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; EPILEPSY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MUTANT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMANS; MUTATION; OOCYTES; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; XENOPUS;

EID: 0141728487     PISSN: 02140934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/dnp.2003.16.5.829313     Document Type: Review

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