Translational research in epilepsy genetics: Sodium channels in man to interneuronopathy in mouse

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-26

  Mullen, Saul A ^a   Scheffer, Ingrid E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOBAZAM; ETIRACETAM; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; STIRIPENTOL; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRAVET SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL HEMIPLEGIC MIGRAINE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; KETOGENIC DIET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 58449109530     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2008.559     Document Type: Review

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