Association of mitochondrial Letm1 with epileptic seizures

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2533-2540

  Zhang, Xiaogang ^a,b   Chen, Guojun ^a   Lu, Yaodong ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Fang, Min ^a   Luo, Jing ^a   Cao, Qingqing ^a   Wang, Xuefeng ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Third People's Hospital of Chongqing   (China)

Author keywords

Lentivirus; Letm1; Mitochondria; MT CYB; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; LAMOTRIGINE; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; LEUCINE ZIPPER EF HAND CONTAINING TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NIGERICIN; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PILOCARPINE; TOPIRAMATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; LETM1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LETM1 PROTEIN, RAT; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EXPERIMENTAL EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MITOCHONDRION SWELLING; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEIZURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CHILD; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924633050     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht118     Document Type: Article

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