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Cytokine-related and sodium channel polymorphism as candidate predisposing factors for childhood encephalopathy FIRES/AERRPS.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Sept 2016
Saitoh M, Kobayashi K, Ohmori I, Tanaka Y, Tanaka K, Inoue T, Horino A, Ohmura K, Kumakura A, Takei Y, Hirabayashi S, Kajimoto M, Uchida T, Yamazaki S, Shiihara T, Kumagai T, Kasai M, Terashima H, Kubota M, Mizuguchi M
Abstract excerpt
Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES), or acute encephalitis with refractory, repetitive partial seizures (AERRPS), is an epileptic encephalopathy beginning with fever-mediated seizures. The etiology remains unclear. To elucidate the genetic background of FIRES/AERRPS (hereafter FIRES), we recruited 19 Japanese patients, genotyped polymorphisms of the IL1B, IL6, IL10, TNFA, IL1RN, SCN1A and SCN2A...
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