Dysfunction of the brain calcium channel Cav2.1 in absence epilepsy and episodic ataxia

Brain

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2682-2692

  Imbrici, Paola ^a   Jaffe, Stephen L ^c   Eunson, Louise H ^a   Davies, Nicholas P ^a   Herd, Colin ^a   Robertson, Robert ^b   Kullmann, Dimitri M ^a   Hanna, Michael G ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ataxia; Calcium channel; Channelopathy; Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ABSENCE; ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CACNAIA GENE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; CHROMOSOME 19; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; GENE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, N-TYPE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 10344235279     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh301     Document Type: Article

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