A new hypothesis of drug refractory epilepsy: Neural network hypothesis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 871-876

  Fang, Min ^a   Xi, Zhi Qin ^a   Wu, Yuan ^a,b   Wang, Xue Feng ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTEGRIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH CONE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ASTROCYTES; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEUROGENESIS;

EID: 79955710082     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.02.039     Document Type: Article

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