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A possible association of responsiveness to adrenocorticotropic hormone with specific GRIN1 haplotypes in infantile spasms.
Developmental medicine and child neurology - 1 Nov 2010
Ding Ying-Xue, Zhang Ying, He Bing, Yue Wei-Hua, Zhang Dai, Zou Li-Ping
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AIM: Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) has been used as the major therapy for infantile spasms since 1958 because it effectively suppresses seizures; it also normalizes the electroencephalogram in the short-term treatment of infantile spasms. G protein-regulated inducer of neurite outgrowth 1 (G...
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