Febrile seizures: traffic slows in the heat

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 343-344

  Berkovic, Samuel F ^a   Petrou, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

BODY TEMPERATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEVER; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHILD; HEAT; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33746629856     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2006.06.005     Document Type: Short Survey

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