Modeling epilepsy with pluripotent human cells

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 14, Issue 1 SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 81-85

  Muotri, Alysson Renato ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimeric brain; Epilepsy; Human embryonic stem cells; Induced pluripotent stem cells; Seizures; System biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL TYPE; DISEASE MODEL; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; GERM LAYER; HUMAN; MESODERM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROGLIA; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 56049091987     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2008.09.021     Document Type: Article

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