Mechanisms by which a CACNA1H mutation in epilepsy patients increases seizure susceptibility

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 592, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 795-809

  Eckle, Veit Simon ^a,b   Shcheglovitov, Aleksandr ^a,c   Vitko, Iuliia ^a   Dey, Deblina ^a   Yap, Chan Choo ^a   Winckler, Bettina ^a   Perez Reyes, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BENZAMIDES; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; CELLS, CULTURED; ETHOSUXIMIDE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEURONS; PIPERIDINES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84894051815     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.264176     Document Type: Article

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