Proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in febrile seizures and epilepsy: Systematic review and meta-analysis1

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 281-305

  Saghazadeh, Amene ^b   Gharedaghi, Maryam ^b   Meysamie, Alipasha ^d   Bauer, Sebastian ^e   Rezaei, Nima ^a,b,c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Epilepsy; Febrile seizures

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; EPILEPSY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEIZURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 84901813935     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/revneuro-2013-0045     Document Type: Article

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