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ReviewFrontiers in neurology2014

The role of T-type calcium channel genes in absence seizures.

Yucai Chen, William Davis Parker, Keling Wang

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Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yucai ChenUniversity of Illinois at Chicago , Peoria, IL , USA.
William Davis ParkerUniversity of Illinois at Chicago , Peoria, IL , USA.
Keling WangHebei Children Hospital , Shijiazhuang , China.
Peoria campus of the University of Illinois System · USUniversity of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The thalamic relay neurons, reticular thalamic nucleus, and neocortical pyramidal cells form a circuit that sustains oscillatory burst firing, and is regarded as the underlying mechanism of absence seizures. T-type calcium channels play a key role in this circuit. Here, we review the role of T-type calcium channel genes in the development of absence seizures, and emphasize gain or loss of function mutations, and other variations that alter both quantity and quality of transcripts, and methylation status of isoforms of T-type calcium channel proteins might be of equal importance in understanding the pathological mechanism of absence seizures.

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absence epilepsyexpressiongeneticsmethylationT-type Ca2+ channels

Identifiers

PMID24847307
PMCPMC4023043
OpenAlexW2054213929

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