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Astrocytic and microglial phenotypes in focal cortical dysplasia.
Epilepsy research - 1 Dec 2025
Goyal Aditi, Rao Shilpa, Philip Mariamma, Arivazhagan A, Saini Jitender, Vishwanathan L G, Asranna Ajay, K Raghavendra, Mundlamuri R C, Sadashiva Nishanth, Bharath R D, K Karthik, M Sandhya, Rao Malla Bhaskara, Sinha Sanjib, Mahadevan Anita
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BACKGROUND: Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a common cause of focal epilepsy, however pathophysiology of epileptogenesis in FCD remains unresolved. Emerging evidence suggests that dysfunctional astrocytes are key players in epilepsy. Recently two phenotypes of astrocytes (A1/A2) and microglia (M1/M2) have been described in neurological diseases with neuroinflammatory and neuroprotective roles. We investigated...
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