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Variability of sclerosis along the longitudinal hippocampal axis in epilepsy: A post mortem study
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.015
Summary: Detailed neuropathological studies of the extent of hippocampal sclerosis (HS) in epilepsy along the longitudinal axis of the hippocampus are lacking. Neuroimaging studies of patients with te...
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Maria Thom,
Ioannis Liagkouras,
Lillian Martinian,
Joan Liu,
Claudia B. Catarino,
Sanjay M. Sisodiya
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18 May 2012 |
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Discontinuation of antiepileptic drugs after successful epilepsy surgery. A Canadian survey
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.018
Summary: Introduction: To identify the perceived practice among Canadian epileptologists regarding discontinuation of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) following successful resective surgery for temporal and...
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José F. Téllez-Zenteno,
Lizbeth Hernández Ronquillo,
Nathalie Jette,
Jorge G. Burneo,
Dang Khoa Nguyen,
Elizabeth J. Donner,
Mark Sadler,
Mano Javidan M,
Donald W. Gross,
Samuel Wiebe,
Canadian Epilepsy Surgery Study Group
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17 May 2012 |
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Acute encephalopathy with a novel point mutation in the SCN2A gene
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.016
Summary: Mutations of the neuronal voltage-gated sodium channel alpha subunit type II (SCN2A) cause various epileptic syndromes, but have never been reported in association with acute encephalopathy. ...
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Katsuhiro Kobayashi,
Hiroki Ohzono,
Mayu Shinohara,
Makiko Saitoh,
Iori Ohmori,
Yoko Ohtsuka,
Masashi Mizuguchi
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Short communication
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16 May 2012 |
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Pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus increases Homer1a and changes mGluR5 expression
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.011
Summary: Homer1a regulates expression of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors type I (mGluR1 and mGluR5) and is involved in neuronal plasticity. It has been reported that Homer1a expression is upr...
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C.F. Cavarsan,
F. Tescarollo,
C. Tesone-Coelho,
R.L.T. Morais,
F.L.T. Motta,
M.M. Blanco,
L.E. Mello
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16 May 2012 |
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Stereotactic radiofrequency amygdalohippocampectomy for the treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy: Do good neuropsychological and seizure outcomes correlate with hippocampal volume reduction?
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.017
Summary: Temporal lobe surgery bears the risk of a decline of neuropsychological functions. Stereotactic radiofrequency amygdalohippocampectomy (SAHE) represents an alternative to mesial temporal lobe...
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Hana Malikova,
Lenka Kramska,
Roman Liscak,
Zdenek Vojtech,
Tomas Prochazka,
Iva Mareckova,
Jiri Lukavsky,
Rastislav Druga
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16 May 2012 |
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Costs, work absence, and adherence in patients with partial onset seizures prescribed gabapentin or pregabalin
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.019
Summary: Background/objective: Few studies have examined cost of illness of epileptic partial onset seizures (POS) from the employer perspective or compared users of gabapentin and pregabalin in treat...
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Nathan L. Kleinman,
Alesia Sadosky,
Jaren Seid,
Roy C. Martin,
David M. Labiner
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16 May 2012 |
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Failure to find association between febrile seizures and SCN1A rs3812718 polymorphism in south Indian patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and hippocampal sclerosis
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.009
Summary: We compared the allele and genotype frequencies of SCN1A SNP rs3812718 between patients with MTLE-HS of south Indian ancestry with and without febrile seizures (FS) and with ethnically matche...
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Shabeesh Balan,
Neetha Nanoth Vellichirammal,
Moinak Banerjee,
Kurupath Radhakrishnan
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Short communication
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14 May 2012 |
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Behavioral, cognitive, and safety profile of 2-deoxy-2-glucose (2DG) in adult rats
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.012
Summary: 2-Deoxy-d-glucose (2DG), a glucose analog that transiently inhibits glycolysis, has anticonvulsant and antiepileptic disease-modifying properties in experimental in vivo models of seizures an...
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Jeffrey C. Ockuly,
James M. Gielissen,
Craig V. Levenick,
Carly Zeal,
Katherine Groble,
Kaitlyn Munsey,
Thomas P. Sutula,
Carl E. Stafstrom
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14 May 2012 |
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Do gene polymorphism in IL-1β, TNF-α and IL-6 influence therapeutic response in patients with drug refractory epilepsy?
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.013
Summary: Purpose: Pro-inflammatory cytokines may play an important pathophysiological role in patients with epilepsy. To understand the role of genes encoding pro-inflammatory cytokines in epilepsy, t...
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Prabhakar Tiwari,
Rekha Dwivedi,
Nasim Mansoori,
Rizwan Alam,
Ugam Kumari Chauhan,
Manjari Tripathi,
Asok Kumar Mukhopadhyay
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14 May 2012 |
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Effects of adrenal dysfunction and high-dose adrenocorticotropic hormone on NMDA-induced spasm seizures in young Wistar rats
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.001
Summary: Infantile spasms (IS) is a devastating epilepsy syndrome treated with adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). To demonstrate the effects of adrenal dysfunction, adrenalectomy (ADX) and N-methyl-d...
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Ya-Jie Wang,
Ying Zhang,
Xian-Hong Liang,
Guang Yang,
Li-Ping Zou
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14 May 2012 |
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Spectral analysis of bilateral or alternate-site kindling-induced afterdischarges in the rabbit hippocampi
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.003
Summary: Kindling is one of the popular animal models of temporal lobe epilepsy. In the present study following the previous results obtained using unilateral hippocampal kindling (UK), we performed s...
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Komei Tsuchiya,
Shinichi Kogure
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11 May 2012 |
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Characterization of status epilepticus induced by two organophosphates in rats
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.014
Summary: Organophosphates (OPs) inhibit the enzyme cholinesterase and cause accumulation of acetylcholine, and are known to cause seizures and status epilepticus (SE) in humans. The animal models of S...
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Marko S. Todorovic,
Morgan L. Cowan,
Corrinee A. Balint,
Chengsan Sun,
Jaideep Kapur
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11 May 2012 |
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5-HT3 receptor mediates the dose-dependent effects of citalopram on pentylenetetrazole-induced clonic seizure in mice: Involvement of nitric oxide
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.004
Summary: Citalopram is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), widely used in the treatment of depressive disorders. It has been shown that citalopram affects seizure susceptibility. Although...
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Borna Payandemehr,
Arash Bahremand,
Reza Rahimian,
Pouya Ziai,
Afsaneh Amouzegar,
Mohammad Sharifzadeh,
Ahmad Reza Dehpour
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11 May 2012 |
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Unprovoked seizures in multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus: A population-based case–control study
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.005
Summary: To study the risk of developing unprovoked seizures among patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), we used 1885 new onset seizure cases, 15,080 controls a...
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Cecilia Adelöw,
Tomas Andersson,
Anders Ahlbom,
Torbjörn Tomson
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Short communication
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10 May 2012 |
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A parent's perspective on dietary treatments for epilepsy
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.09.024
Summary: Four families gave their accounts of the how Dietary Therapies had impacted on their lives and that of their children who suffered with intractable epilepsy. All with very different stories, ...
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Emma Williams,
Jim Abrahams,
Alison Maguire,
Gerry Harris
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10 May 2012 |
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Metabolic brain PET pattern underlying hyperkinetic seizures
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.008
Summary: This study aims to contribute to the identification of selective brain regions involved in hyperkinetic behaviors. We studied the whole-brain voxel-based interictal metabolic 18FDG-PET patter...
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Eric Guedj,
Aileen McGonigal,
Lisa Vaugier,
Olivier Mundler,
Fabrice Bartolomei
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03 May 2012 |
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Rare protein sequence variation in SV2A gene does not affect response to levetiracetam
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.007
Summary: Levetiracetam, a broad spectrum antiepileptic drug, binds to membrane protein SV2A. The protein coding region of SV2A was sequenced in 158 patients with focal or generalized epilepsies divide...
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Leanne M. Dibbens,
Bree L. Hodgson,
Katherine L. Helbig,
Karen L. Oliver,
John C. Mulley,
Samuel F. Berkovic,
Ingrid E. Scheffer
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Short communication
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01 May 2012 |
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Serum magnesium and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: A curious clinical sign or a necessity of life
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.010
We read with interest the innovative article titled “Can magnesium supplementation reduce seizures in people with epilepsy? A hypothesis” by Yuen and Sander published in the March issue of Epilepsy Re...
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Fulvio A. Scorza,
Esper A. Cavalheiro,
Roberta M. Cysneiros,
Ricardo M. Arida
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Correspondence
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30 April 2012 |
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Cerebro-cerebellar functional connectivity profile of an epilepsy patient with periventricular nodular heterotopia
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.006
Summary: Periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) is a rare malformation of cortical development often associated with drug resistant focal onset epilepsy. The link between nodules and neocortex have...
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Santarnecchi Emiliano,
Vatti Giampaolo,
Marino Daniela,
Polizzotto Nicola,
Cerase Alfonso,
Rocchi Raffaele,
Rossi Alessandro
et al.
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Short communication
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30 April 2012 |
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Risk factors for hyperammonemia associated with valproic acid therapy in adult epilepsy patients
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.001
Summary: Hyperammonemia is one of the side effects of treatment with valproic acid (VPA), but the risk factors and mechanisms involved remain obscure. This study analyzed the risk factors for hyperamm...
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Yoshiaki Yamamoto,
Yukitoshi Takahashi,
Eri Suzuki,
Nobuyuki Mishima,
Kazuyuki Inoue,
Kunihiko Itoh,
Yoshiyuki Kagawa,
Yushi Inoue
et al.
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30 April 2012 |
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Epilepsy surgery can help many more adult patients with intractable seizures
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.04.002
Summary: Purpose: To quantify underreferral for epilepsy surgery in The Netherlands, and reveal its causes. Methods: Cross-sectional sample of medical files of epilepsy patients from eight general hos...
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Sabine G. Uijl,
Frans S.S. Leijten,
Karel G.M. Moons,
Ellen P.H.M. Veltman,
Cyrille H. Ferrier,
Cees A. van Donselaar
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30 April 2012 |
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Investigation of prevalence, clinical characteristics and management of epilepsy in Yueyang city of China by a door-to-door survey
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.012
Summary: Background: The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence rate, types and causes of epilepsy, and information on treatment gap of epilepsy in Yueyang city, and to evaluate the diagnos...
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Xiaorong Pi,
Lei Cui,
Aizhong Liu,
Jie Zhang,
Yan Ma,
Bofu Liu,
Chaoqun Cai,
Caiyun Zhu,
Tianbin Zhou,
Jia Chen,
Zhen Zhou,
Chunmei Wang,
Luoqing Li,
Shichuo Li,
Jianzhong Wu,
Bo Xiao
et al.
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30 April 2012 |
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Resting motor threshold in idiopathic generalized epilepsies: A systematic review with meta-analysis
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.020
Summary: Resting motor threshold (rMT) assessed by means of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is thought to reflect trans-synaptic excitability of cortico-spinal neurons. TMS studies reporting r...
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Francesco Brigo,
Monica Storti,
Maria Donata Benedetti,
Fabio Rossini,
Raffaele Nardone,
Frediano Tezzon,
Antonio Fiaschi,
Luigi Giuseppe Bongiovanni,
Paolo Manganotti
et al.
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Review article
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30 April 2012 |
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Levetiracetam extended release conversion to monotherapy for the treatment of patients with partial-onset seizures: A double-blind, randomised, multicentre, historical control study
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.007
Summary: This double-blind, randomised, multicentre, conversion to monotherapy, historical control study (N01280; NCT00419094) evaluated the efficacy, safety and tolerability of levetiracetam extended...
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Steve Chung,
Hugo Ceja,
Jacek Gawłowicz,
Gagik Avakyan,
Cindy McShea,
Jimmy Schiemann,
Sarah Lu
et al.
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20 April 2012 |
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The antidepressant drug fluoxetine inhibits persistent sodium currents and seizure-like events
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.019
Summary: The antidepressant drug fluoxetine (FLX) has been shown to exert antiepileptic effects in several animal models, but mixed preclinical findings and occasional reports of proconvulsant effects...
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Kajsa M. Igelström,
Philip M. Heyward
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20 April 2012 |
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A comparison of quality of life in adolescents with epilepsy or asthma using the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.017
Summary: Purpose: To compare the quality of life (QOL) in adolescents with epilepsy or asthma. Methods: Eighty-five epileptic adolescents, 81 adolescents with asthma and 71 normal controls were recrui...
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Ji Wang,
Yi Wang,
Li Bo Wang,
Hui Xu,
Xiao-lei Zhang
et al.
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18 April 2012 |
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Retigabine as adjunctive therapy in adults with partial-onset seizures: Integrated analysis of three pivotal controlled trials
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.010
Summary: We assessed the efficacy and tolerability of retigabine (RTG; international non-proprietary name)/ezogabine (EZG; US adopted name) as adjunctive therapy in adults with partial-onset seizures ...
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Roger J. Porter,
David E. Burdette,
Antonio Gil-Nagel,
Susan T. Hall,
Robin White,
Soraya Shaikh,
Sarah E. DeRossett
et al.
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18 April 2012 |
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Metoprine induced behavioral modifications and brain regional histamine increase in WAG/Rij and Wistar rats
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.016
Summary: The effects of metoprine, an inhibitor of histamine N-methyltransferase, on open field activity and brain regional histamine (HA) content were examined in rats with mixed, absence and audioge...
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Irina S. Samotaeva,
Lidiya M. Birioukova,
Inna S. Midzyanovskaya,
Galina D. Kuznetsova,
Ara S. Bazyan,
Leena Tuomisto
et al.
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16 April 2012 |
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Seizures and multiple sclerosis in Chinese patients: A clinical and magnetic resonance imaging study
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.018
Summary: Purpose: Epileptic seizures in Chinese patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) have not been studied extensively. We investigated the clinical, laboratory, and imaging findings for Chinese pati...
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Mei-Yun Cheng,
Yau-Yau Wai,
Long-Sun Ro,
Tony Wu
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16 April 2012 |
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Clinical evidence for the utility of movement compensation algorithm in magnetoencephalography: Successful localization during focal seizure
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.014
Summary: A movement compensation (MC) algorithm may help to evaluate seizure focus in magnetoencephalography despite patient movement. We report a boy whose ictal MEG focus was localized to the same s...
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Yosuke Kakisaka,
Zhong I. Wang,
John C. Mosher,
Anne-Sophie Dubarry,
Andreas V. Alexopoulos,
Rei Enatsu,
Prakash Kotagal,
Richard C. Burgess
et al.
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Short communication
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16 April 2012 |
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Analysis of three lamotrigine extended-release clinical trials: Comparison of pragmatic ITT and LOCF methodologies
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.015
Summary: Early withdrawal of patients from a clinical trial can compromise the robustness of the data by introducing bias into the analysis. This is most commonly addressed by using the “intent to tre...
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Jacqueline A. French,
Anne E. Hammer,
Alain Vuong,
John A. Messenheimer
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12 April 2012 |
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Corrigendum to “Levetiracetam clinical pharmacokinetics in elderly and very elderly patients with epilepsy” [Epilepsy Res. 98 (2012) 130–134]
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.013
The authors regret that during the publication of the above paper the author's affiliation was published incorrectly. The updated affiliation is reproduced correctly above.
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M. Contin,
S. Mohamed,
F. Albani,
R. Riva,
A. Baruzzi
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Erratum
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09 April 2012 |
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Effect of mild hypothermia on glutamate receptor expression after status epilepticus
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.001
Summary: Hypothermia has been shown to have neuroprotective effects in various models of neurological damage. However, its therapeutic effect on pediatric status epilepticus (SE) is still unknown. We ...
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Lifei Yu,
Yuanfeng Zhou,
Yi Wang
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09 April 2012 |
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Anticonvulsant effect of retigabine during postnatal development in rats
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.006
Summary: Retigabine is a new-generation antiepileptic drug that exerts therapeutic action through the activation of KCNQ channel dependent M-type potassium currents. While retigabine has been extensiv...
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Patrick A. Forcelli,
Colin Soper,
Anand Lakhkar,
Karen Gale,
Alexei Kondratyev
et al.
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09 April 2012 |
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Electroclinical overlap of two types of epileptic encephalopathy occurring in the same children in a certain age period?
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.008
Summary: In this study, we describe three patients who each had an electroclinical overlap of two different epileptic encephalopathies (EE), with onset in a certain age period. Patient 1 had electrocl...
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Roberto Horacio Caraballo,
Alejandra Soraru,
Ricardo Oscar Cersósimo
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Short communication
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09 April 2012 |
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Antiepileptic drugs and vitamin B6 plasma levels in adult patients
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.002
Summary: Treatment with several antiepileptic drugs (AED) is associated with lower serum concentrations of folate or vitamin B12. This prospective monocenter study analyzed vitamin B6 blood levels in ...
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Michael Linnebank,
Susanna Moskau,
Alexander Semmler,
Guido Widman,
Michael Weller,
Ulf Kallweit,
Christian E. Elger
et al.
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Short communication
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05 April 2012 |
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Variability of carbamazepine and valproate concentrations in elderly nursing home residents
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.014
Summary: Purpose: Measuring antiepileptic drug (AED) concentrations is common practice in nursing homes. Phenytoin (PHT) concentrations fluctuate substantially in many nursing home residents under con...
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Angela K. Birnbaum,
Jeannine M. Conway,
Melissa A. Strege,
Ilo E. Leppik
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05 April 2012 |
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Baboon model of generalized epilepsy: Continuous intracranial video-EEG monitoring with subdural electrodes
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.016
Summary: The baboon provides a natural non-human primate model for photosensitive, generalized epilepsy. This study describes an implantation procedure for the placement of subdural grid and strip ele...
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C. Ákos Szabó,
Felipe S. Salinas,
M. Michelle Leland,
Jean-Louis Caron,
Martha A. Hanes,
Koyle D. Knape,
Dongbin Xie,
Jeff T. Williams
et al.
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05 April 2012 |
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Recruitment for genetic studies of epilepsy
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.011
Summary: Virtually nothing has been published about recruitment of adults with sporadic temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) for genetic studies. We examined eligibility, recruitment, participation rates, and...
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Sylwia Misiewicz,
Melodie R. Winawer
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04 April 2012 |
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High frequency spectral components after Secobarbital: The contribution of muscular origin—A study with MEG/EEG
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.002
Highlights: ► High-frequency activity (wide range gamma) in the surface EEG after administration of benzodiazepines is not of cerebral origin. ► MEG is significantly less susceptible to muscle activit...
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Steven Claus,
Demetrios Velis,
Fernando H. Lopes da Silva,
Max A. Viergever,
Stiliyan Kalitzin
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04 April 2012 |
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Predictive model for refractoriness in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy based on clinical and diagnostic test data
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.009
Summary: Introduction: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) is frequently resistant to drug treatment, but a high percentage of these patients can be free of seizures after epilepsy surgery. Delay in the surg...
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Pedro J. Serrano-Castro,
Manuel Payan-Ortiz,
Pablo Quiroga-Subirana,
Javier Fernandez-Perez,
Tesifon Parron-Carreño
et al.
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03 April 2012 |
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Comparison of heart rate variability among children with well controlled versus refractory epilepsy: A cross-sectional study
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.005
Summary: Purpose: Autonomic symptoms frequently occur during seizures. There are reports that the adult group of intractable epilepsy patients have different autonomic profile than the well controlled...
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K.N. Vykunta Raju,
Navita Choudhary,
Sheffali Gulati,
Madhulika Kabra,
Ashok Kumar Jaryal,
K.K. Deepak,
R.M. Pandey
et al.
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30 March 2012 |
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Coexisting seizures in patients with infantile spasms confirmed by long-term video-electroencephalography monitoring
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.003
Summary: Purpose: We performed this study to evaluate the frequency, types, and ictal electroencephalography (EEG) findings of coexisting seizures in patients with infantile spasms at the onset of spa...
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Hunmin Kim,
Jeong Ho Lee,
Hye Won Ryu,
Byung Chan Lim,
Jong-Hee Chae,
Jieun Choi,
Ki Joong Kim,
Yong Seung Hwang,
Hee Hwang
et al.
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30 March 2012 |
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Surgical treatment for epilepsy in 17 children with tuberous sclerosis-related West syndrome
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.017
Summary: The efficacy of surgery for the treatment of epilepsy in patients with West syndrome secondary to tuberous sclerosis is unclear. The charts of 17 patients with tuberous sclerosis and secondar...
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Shi-Yong Liu,
Ning An,
Mei-Hua Yang,
Zhi Hou,
Yong Liu,
Wei Liao,
Qin Zhang,
Fang-Cheng Cai,
Hui Yang
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29 March 2012 |
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Correlations between ictal propagation and response to electrical cortical stimulation: A cortico-cortical evoked potential study
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.004
Summary: Objective: To better understand the process of ictal propagation in epilepsy by using cortico-cortical evoked potential (CCEP), which reveals the brain networks. Methods: Intracranial EEG rec...
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Rei Enatsu,
Kazutaka Jin,
Sherif Elwan,
Yuichi Kubota,
Zhe Piao,
Timothy O’Connor,
Karl Horning,
Richard C. Burgess,
William Bingaman,
Dileep R. Nair
et al.
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29 March 2012 |
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Evaluation of different antiepileptic drug strategies in medically refractory epilepsy patients following epilepsy surgery
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.013
Summary: Purpose: This study aimed to explore the most appropriate antiepileptic drug strategies after successful epilepsy surgery. Methods: A total of 131 refractory epilepsy patients who underwent e...
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Tian-fang Zeng,
Dong-mei An,
Jin-mei Li,
Yao-hua Li,
Lei Chen,
Zhen Hong,
Ding Lei,
Dong Zhou
et al.
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22 March 2012 |
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Possible involvement of PPAR-gamma receptor and nitric oxide pathway in the anticonvulsant effect of acute pioglitazone on pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in mice
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.015
Summary: Besides the receptor-mediated effects of pioglitazone, the involvement of nitric oxide (NO) has been previously demonstrated in some pioglitazone-induced central and peripheral effects. In th...
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Razieh Adabi Mohazab,
Mehrak Javadi-Paydar,
Bahram Delfan,
Ahmad Reza Dehpour
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22 March 2012 |
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Is the ketogenic diet effective in specific epilepsy syndromes?
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.01.015
Summary: Is the ketogenic diet (KD) more effective in certain epilepsy syndromes? The KD has been shown to be effective in treating multiple seizure types and epilepsy syndromes. We review the effecti...
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Srishti Nangia,
Roberto H. Caraballo,
Hoon-Chul Kang,
Douglas R. Nordli,
Ingrid E. Scheffer
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19 March 2012 |
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Connectivity disruptions in resting-state functional brain networks in children with temporal lobe epilepsy
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.010
Summary: Functional resting-state connectivity has been shown to be altered in certain adult epilepsy populations, but few connectivity studies have been performed on pediatric epilepsy patients. Here...
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Katariina Mankinen,
Paula Jalovaara,
Jyri-Johan Paakki,
Marika Harila,
Seppo Rytky,
Osmo Tervonen,
Juha Nikkinen,
Tuomo Starck,
Jukka Remes,
Heikki Rantala,
Vesa Kiviniemi
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15 March 2012 |
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Endogenous adenosine induces NMDA receptor-independent persistent epileptiform discharges in dorsal and ventral hippocampus via activation of A2 receptors
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.012
Summary: Although adenosine is widely assumed to be an endogenous anticonvulsant its role in epileptogenesis is still contradictory. Using slices from the dorsal (DH) and the vental (VH) rat hippocamp...
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Christos Moschovos,
George Kostopoulos,
Costas Papatheodoropoulos
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09 March 2012 |
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Can magnesium supplementation reduce seizures in people with epilepsy? A hypothesis
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.004
Summary: Magnesium is required for over 300 enzyme systems and is critical for many cellular functions including oxidative phosphorylation, glycolysis, DNA transcription and protein synthesis. Studies...
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Alan W.C. Yuen,
Josemir W. Sander
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09 March 2012 |
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Voxel-based morphometric MRI post-processing in MRI-negative focal cortical dysplasia followed by simultaneously recorded MEG and stereo-EEG
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.011
Summary: We aim to report on the usefulness of a voxel-based morphometric MRI post-processing technique in detecting subtle epileptogenic structural lesions. The MRI post-processing technique was impl...
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Z.I. Wang,
S.E. Jones,
A.J. Ristic,
C. Wong,
Y. Kakisaka,
K. Jin,
F. Schneider,
J.A. Gonzalez-Martinez,
J.C. Mosher,
D. Nair,
R.C. Burgess,
I.M. Najm,
A.V. Alexopoulos
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Short communication
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06 March 2012 |
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Response to: A functional 5-HT1A variant and comorbid anxiety
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.008
We thank Dr. Philipp Sand for his interest in our manuscript and we apologize for the missing information. In our work we employed an allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification adap...
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Laila Cigana Schenkel,
Rafael Rebelo e Silva,
Marino Muxfeldt Bianchin,
Sandra Leistner-Segal
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Correspondence
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05 March 2012 |
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Clinical characteristics, etiology and long-term outcome of epilepsia partialis continua in adult patients in Thailand
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.009
Summary: Objective: Epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) is clinically defined as a syndrome of continuous focal jerking of a body part. EPC has various etiologies and outcomes depending on its cause. M...
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Kanitpong Phabphal,
Kitti Limapichat,
Pornchai Sathirapanya,
Suwanna Setthawatcharawanich,
Alan Geater
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05 March 2012 |
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Involvement of transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 channels in the pro-convulsant effect of anandamide in pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.003
Summary: Anandamide, an endogenous agonist of CB1 receptors, also activates TRPV1 but at a higher concentration. Studies demonstrate the anticonvulsant activity of anandamide via CB1 receptors, while ...
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Shyamshree S.S. Manna,
Sudhir N. Umathe
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05 March 2012 |
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A functional 5-HT1A variant and comorbid anxiety
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.006
I have read with interest the recent paper by on the risk-enhancing effects of a 5-HT1A allele for comorbid anxiety disorders in epilepsy. As the authors have pointed out, the C-1019G polymorphism ha...
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P.G. Sand
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02 March 2012 |
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Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome is not caused by SCN1A mutations
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.007
Summary: Two distinctive epileptic encephalopathies, febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) and Dravet syndrome (DS), present with febrile status epilepticus in a normal child followed by...
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Daniel Carranza Rojo,
A. Simon Harvey,
Xenia Iona,
Leanne M. Dibbens,
John A. Damiano,
Todor Arsov,
Deepak Gill,
Jeremy L. Freeman,
Richard J. Leventer,
Angela Vincent,
Samuel F. Berkovic,
Jacinta M. McMahon,
Ingrid E. Scheffer
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Short communication
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02 March 2012 |
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Satisfaction with antiepileptic drugs in children and adolescents with newly diagnosed and chronic epilepsy
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.02.005
Summary: Purpose: To assess incidence, indicators and outcome of satisfaction with antiepileptic drugs in children. Methods: Multicenter, observational, open, prospective survey of children and adoles...
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Ettore Beghi,
Paolo Messina,
Elisabetta Pupillo,
Giovanni Crichiutti,
Maria Giuseppina Baglietto,
Pierangelo Veggiotti,
Nelia Zamponi,
Susanna Casellato,
Lucia Margari,
Carlo Cianchetti,
the TASCA study group
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02 March 2012 |
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Reflex seizures and reflex epilepsies: Old models for understanding mechanisms of epileptogenesis
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.01.013
Summary: Reflex seizures and epilepsies represent an ancient human model to understand basic mechanisms of epilepsy. The increase of light stimulation makes this issue extremely actual and interesting...
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Salvatore Striano,
Antonietta Coppola,
Luigi del Gaudio,
Pasquale Striano
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24 February 2012 |
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Histamine 1 receptor knock out mice show age-dependent susceptibility to status epilepticus and consequent neuronal damage
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.01.011
Summary: The central histaminergic neuron system is an important regulator of activity stages such as arousal and sleep. In several epilepsy models, histamine has been shown to modulate epileptic acti...
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Tiina-Kaisa Kukko-Lukjanov,
Maria Grönman,
Minnamaija Lintunen,
Hanna B. Laurén,
Kimmo A. Michelsen,
Pertti Panula,
Irma E. Holopainen
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21 February 2012 |