Febrile seizures: Mechanisms and relationship to epilepsy

Brain and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 366-371

  Dubé, Céline M ^a   Brewster, Amy L ^a   Baram, Tallie Z ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Development; Epileptogenesis; Fever; Hippocampus; Inflammation; Ion channels; Seizures

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ENDOCANNABINOID; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; ION CHANNEL;

CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEVER; HYPERTHERMIA; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMORBIDITY; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; MICE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 64449083095     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2008.11.010     Document Type: Review

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