Functional characterization and neuronal modeling of the effects of childhood absence epilepsy variants of CACNA1H, a T-type calcium channel

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 4844-4855

  Vitko, Iuliia ^a   Chen, Yucai ^a,b   Arias, Juan M ^a   Shen, Yen ^c   Wu, Xi Ru ^b   Perez Reyes, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^c CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

Author keywords

Calcium channels; Epilepsy; Ion channel gating; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; T type; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE;

ABSENCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSCILLATION; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; CELL LINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 18744383129     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0847-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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