Epilepsy and microRNA

Neuroscience

Volumn 238, Issue , 2013, Pages 218-229

  Jimenez Mateos, E M ^a   Henshall, D C ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Dicer; Epigenetics; Epileptogenesis; Hippocampal sclerosis; Non coding RNA; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 132; MICRORNA 134; MICRORNA 34A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL MIGRATION; DENDRITE; DISEASE MODEL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEURONS; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 84875612097     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.02.027     Document Type: Review

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