Epileptogenesis in the developing brain: What can we learn from animal models?

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2007, Pages 2-6

  Bender, Roland A ^a   Baram, Tallie Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Damage; Epilepsy; Epileptogenesis; Excitotoxicity; Febrile seizures; Gene expression; Hippocampus; Hyperpolarization; Ih; Interleukin; Ion channels; Limbic system; Neonatal

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CELL DEATH; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; RODENTIA; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 34848895102     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01281.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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