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Lack of association of childhood partial epilepsy with brain derived neurotrophic factor gene.
TheScientificWorldJournal - 1 Jan 2012
Unalp Aycan, Bora Elcin, Cankaya Tufan, Giray Bozkaya Ozlem, Ercal Derya, Ozturk Aysel, Ulgenalp Ayfer
Abstract excerpt
Brain-derived factor (BDNF) is a member of neurotrophin family and is localized and upregulated in areas implicated in epileptogenesis. Several lines of evidence make the BDNF gene a plausible candidate gene for predisposition to epilepsy. In this study, we tested that BDNF might be involved in t...
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