Idiopathic epilepsy of childhood and potassium ion channels

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 415-418

  Dai, Alper I ^a   Wasay, Mohammad ^b  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR6.1; KCNJ10 PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BIOPHYSICS; CELL METABOLISM; CELL STIMULATION; CHANNELOPATHY; DEPOLARIZATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INHERITANCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONOGENIC DISORDER; NEUROPROTECTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SCREENING; CHILD; EPILEPSY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

CHILD; EPILEPSY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 35348921046     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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