A computational model for the Huntington disease

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1154-1158

  Sarbaz, Yashar ^a   Banae, Masood ^a   Gharibzadeh, Shahriar ^b  

^a SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GABAPENTIN; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CHOREA; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HILL REACTION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33847051206     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.06.039     Document Type: Article

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