The role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Becchetti, Andrea ^a   Aracri, Patrizia ^a   Meneghini, Simone ^a   Brusco, Simone ^a   Amadeo, Alida ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

ADNFLE; CHRNA2; CHRNA4; CHRNB2; GABA; nAChR; Prefrontal cortex; Sleep related epilepsy

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALCIUM ION; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; OXCARBAZEPINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT NOCTURNAL FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CRH GENE; DEPD5 GENE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; KCNT1 GENE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SLEEP STAGE;

EID: 84926462226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00022     Document Type: Review

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