Analysis of the hypothalamus in a case of X-linked lissencephaly with abnormal genitalia (XLAG)

Brain and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 456-460

  Miyata, Rie ^a   Hayashi, Masaharu ^b   Miyai, Kentaro ^a   Akashi, Takumi ^c   Kato, Mitsuhiro ^d   Kohyama, Jun ^a  

^a Tokyo Kita Shakai Hoken Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ARX gene; Diencephalon; Hypothalamus; Lissencephaly; XLAG

Indexed keywords

AGYRIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CRYPTORCHISM; DIARRHEA; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOSPADIAS; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MICROPENIS; PNEUMONIA; THERMOREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER; X LINKED LISSENCEPHALY WITH ABNORMAL GENITALIA;

AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLIA; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CHORISTOMA; CHRONOBIOLOGY DISORDERS; CLASSICAL LISSENCEPHALIES AND SUBCORTICAL BAND HETEROTOPIAS; EPILEPSY; FATAL OUTCOME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENITALIA, MALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFANT; MALE; MUTATION; PITUITARY DISEASES; PNEUMONIA; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 67349086288     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2008.08.008     Document Type: Article

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