How Dravet syndrome became a model for studying childhood genetic epilepsies

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2309-2310

  Dravet, Charlotte ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864696124     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aws198     Document Type: Note

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