Augmented currents of an HCN2 variant in patients with febrile seizure syndromes

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 542-546

  Dibbens, Leanne M ^a,b   Reid, Christopher A ^c   Hodgson, Bree ^a,b   Thomas, Evan A ^c   Phillips, Alison M ^c   Gazina, Elena ^c   Cromer, Brett A ^c   Clarke, Alison L ^c   Baram, Tallie Z ^d   Scheffer, Ingrid E ^c   Berkovic, Samuel F ^c   Petrou, Steven ^c  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYPERPOLARIZATION ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED ION CHANNEL; ION CHANNEL; PROLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPILEPSY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SYNDROME; VOLTAGE CLAMP; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROLINE; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSFECTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 77951728544     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.21909     Document Type: Article

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