Article
Periventricular heterotopia: new insights into Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Clinical medicine & research - 1 Nov 2005
Sheen Volney L, Walsh Christopher A
Abstract excerpt
Nature often employs similar mechanisms to complete similar tasks, thus the evolution of homologous proteins across various organ systems to perform similar but slightly different functions. In this respect, disorders attributed to specific genetic mutations, while initially thought to be restricted in function and purpose, may provide broad insight into general cellular and molecular mechanisms of development...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Brain
- Brain Diseases
- Cell Movement
- Central Nervous System
- Chromosomes, Human, X
- Collagen
- Contractile Proteins
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Filamins
- Humans
- Microfilament Proteins
- Mutation
- Neurons
- Phenotype
- Risk
