How do mutant Nav1.1 sodium channels cause epilepsy?

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 149-159

  Ragsdale, David S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channelopathy; Epilepsy; GEFS+; SMEI; Voltage gated sodium channel

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

BRAIN DISEASE; CHANNELOPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SODIUM CURRENT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 45649085478     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2008.01.003     Document Type: Review

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