Complexities in the association of human blood-brain barrier disruption with seizures: Importance of patient population and method of disruption [1]

Brain

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Butler, Tracy ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Box 140 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN TUMOR; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MANNITOL; RATS;

EID: 34547726767     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm119     Document Type: Letter

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