Losing neurons: Selective vulnerability and mesial temporal sclerosis

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue SUPPL. 7, 2005, Pages 39-44

  Lewis, Darrell V ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic predisposition; Initial precipitating injury; Mesial temporal sclerosis; Microdysgenesis; Prolonged Febrile seizures; Temporal Lobe epilepsy; Two hit hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CELL LOSS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTHERMIA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CELL COUNT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GLIOSIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURE; STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; CELL COUNT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; RATS; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 27244441153     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.00306.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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