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Genetic Analysis of Sodium Channel Genes in Pediatric Epilepsy Patients of Pakistan.
Genetics research - 1 Jan 2022
Ashfaq Aqsa, Saleem Tayyaba, Sheikh Nadeem, Maqbool Hafsa
Abstract excerpt
Epilepsy affects millions of people worldwide. Although antiepileptic drugs work for the majority of epileptic patients, these drugs do not work for some of the patients, subjecting them to drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). Voltage-gated sodium channels act as targets for a number of antiepileptic drugs, and the genes encoding these channels can play a crucial role in developing drug-resistant epilepsy. This...
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