A probable causative factor for an old problem: Selenium and glutathione peroxidase appear to play important roles in epilepsy pathogenesis

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1750-1755

  Ashrafi, Mahmoud Reza ^a,c   Shams, Sedigheh ^a   Nouri, Mehrnaz ^a   Mohseni, Meysam ^a   Shabanian, Reza ^a   Yekaninejad, Mir Saeed ^b   Chegini, Nastaran ^a   Khodadad, Ahmad ^a   Safaralizadeh, Reza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Free radicals; Glutathione peroxidase; Seizure; Selenium

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELENIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; ROC CURVE; SELENIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548459050     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01143.x     Document Type: Article

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