Neurological Disease Rises from Ocean to Bring Model for Human Epilepsy to Life

Toxins

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1646-1675

  Ramsdell, John S ^a  

^a CENTER FOR COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT); Domoic acid; Epilepsy; Harmful algal bloom; Sea lion

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; DOMOIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; NATURAL PRODUCT; PESTICIDE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN;

ALGA; ANCHOVY; BIOACCUMULATION; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MUSSEL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SEAL; SEIZURE; SHELLFISH POISONING; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DDT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; KAINIC ACID; MARINE TOXINS; NEUROTOXINS; PESTICIDES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CETACEA; OTARIIDAE;

EID: 78649931569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins2071646     Document Type: Review

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