Epilepsy: A 'going ape' model for SUDEP?

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 639-640

  Striano, Pasquale ^a   Zara, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; SEROTONIN AGONIST; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

AUTOPSY; BABOON; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG EDEMA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK REDUCTION; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SHORT SURVEY; SUDDEN DEATH;

ANIMALS; DEATH, SUDDEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; PAPIO;

EID: 74949091137     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2009.190     Document Type: Short Survey

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