Mutational and immunohistochemical analysis of ezrin-, radixin-, moesin (ERM) molecules in epilepsy-associated glioneuronal lesions

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 537-546

  Majores, Michael ^a   Schick, Volker ^a   Engels, Gudrun ^a   Fassunke, Jana ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a   Schramm, Johannes ^a   Blümcke, Ingmar ^b   Becker, Albert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical malformations; Cytoskeleton; Ganglioglioma; Migration; Phosphoinositide 3 kinase pathway

Indexed keywords

EZRIN; ISOLEUCINE; MOESIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; RADIXIN; VALINE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; CYTOSKELETON; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPILEPSY; EXON; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROPIL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EPILEPSY; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 28844481896     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-005-1088-3     Document Type: Article

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