Voltage-gated calcium channels and idiopathic generalized epilepsies

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 941-966

  Khosravani, Houman ^a   Zamponi, Gerald W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL P TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL Q TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; ION CHANNEL; LAMOTRIGINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ABSENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEPRESSION; DRUG MECHANISM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MIGRAINE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS;

EID: 33745860946     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: 15221210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00002.2006     Document Type: Review

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