Genetic mouse models of essential tremor: Are they essential?

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 584-586

  Jankovic, Joseph ^a   Noebels, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; TOPIRAMATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 3Q; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 14644428979     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI24544     Document Type: Review

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