Inflammatory processes, febrile seizures, and subsequent epileptogenesis

Epilepsy Currents

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL.1, 2014, Pages 15-22

  Choy, ManKin ^a   Dubé, Céline M ^a   Ehrengruber, Markus ^a   Baram, Tallie Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 8; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; LIMB DISEASE; LIMBIC EPILEPSY; REFLEX EPILEPSY; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84897934309     PISSN: 15357597     EISSN: 15357511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5698/1535-7511-14.s2.15     Document Type: Article

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