Seizures, ataxia, and neuronal loss in cystatin B heterozygous mice

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 752-757

  Kaasik, Allen ^a   Kuum, Malle ^a   Aonurm, Anu ^a   Kalda, Anti ^a   Vaarmann, Annika ^a   Zharkovsky, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Cystatin B; EPM1; Progressive myoclonus epilepsy; Unverricht Lundborg disease

Indexed keywords

CYSTATIN B;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MOUSE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RATING SCALE; SEIZURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ATAXIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYSTATINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; SEIZURES; UNVERRICHT-LUNDBORG SYNDROME;

EID: 34247139737     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.00985.x     Document Type: Article

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