The topics of brain malformation and epilepsy - Age-dependent epileptic encephalopathies and interneuronopathies

No To Hattatsu

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 333-338

  Mitsuhiro, Kato ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; SYNTAXIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ARX PROTEIN, HUMAN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MUNC18 PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; POLYALANINE; STXBP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AGYRIA; ARX GENE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DYSTONIA; EPILEPSY; EXPANSION MUTATION; FOREBRAIN; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYDRANENCEPHALY; INTERNEURON; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROPATHY; NONSENSE MUTATION; OHTAHARA SYNDROME; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; STXBP1 GENE; WEST SYNDROME; BRAIN; GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SYNAPSE VESICLE;

BRAIN; EPILEPSY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MUNC18 PROTEINS; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77957015635     PISSN: 00290831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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