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Epilepsy-associated dysfunction in the voltage-gated neuronal sodium channel SCN1A.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 10 Dec 2003
Lossin Christoph, Rhodes Thomas H, Desai Reshma R, Vanoye Carlos G, Wang Dao, Carniciu Sanda, Devinsky Orrin, George Alfred L
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in SCN1A, the gene encoding the brain voltage-gated sodium channel alpha1 subunit (NaV1.1), are associated with at least two forms of epilepsy, generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) and severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI). We examined the functional properties of four GEFS+ alleles and one SMEI allele using whole-cell patch-clamp analysis of heterologously expressed recombinant...
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