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Minute amounts of hamartin wildtype rescue the emergence of tuber-like lesions in conditional Tsc1 ablated mice.
Neurobiology of disease - 1 Nov 2016
Robens Barbara K, Grote Alexander, Pitsch Julika, Schoch Susanne, Cardoso Carlos, Becker Albert J
Abstract excerpt
Tuberous sclerosis (TSC) is a phacomatosis associated with highly differentiated malformations including tubers in the brain. Those are composed of large dysplastic neurons and 'giant cells'. Cortical tubers are frequent causes of chronic seizures and resemble neuropathologically focal cortical dysplasias (FCD) type IIb. Patients with FCDIIb, however, lack additional stigmata of TSC. Mutations and allelic...
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