Altered expression of pannexin proteins in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1801-1806

  Jiang, Ting ^a   Long, Hongyu ^a   Ma, Yan ^a   Long, Lili ^a   Li, Yi ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Zhou, Pinting ^a   Yuan, Chunyun ^a   Xiao, Bo ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Pannexin; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; PANNEXIN 1; PANNEXIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NERVE PROTEIN; PANX1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PANX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL DENSITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONNEXINS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893796106     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2013.1739     Document Type: Article

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