Adult hippocampal neurogenesis and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: Reality or just an attractive history?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 914-922

  Scorza, Fulvio A ^a   Cysneiros, Roberta M ^b   Arida, Ricardo M ^a   Scorza, Carla A ^a   de Almeida, Antonio Carlos Guimarães ^c   Schmidt, Beny ^a   Cavalheiro, Esper A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL MIGRATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; GRANULE CELL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH, SUDDEN; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; NEUROGENESIS; SEIZURES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 54049086495     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.06.043     Document Type: Article

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