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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2018

Individualizing Treatment Approaches for Epileptic Patients with Glucose Transporter Type1 (GLUT-1) Deficiency.

Armond Daci, Adnan Bozalija, Fisnik Jashari, Shaip Krasniqi

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2018. 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
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Ketogenic diet therapy for the treatment of pediatric epilepsy.Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape · 2025
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  10. A Novel Variant of theFrontiers in genetics · 2022
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  15. A Novel Intronic Variant inJournal of epilepsy research · 2020
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  17. From Genetic Testing to Precision Medicine in Epilepsy.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Armond DaciDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Prishtina, Prishtina 10000, Kosovo. armond.daci@uni-pr.edu.
Adnan BozalijaDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Prishtina, Prishtina 10000, Kosovo. adnan.bozalija@uni-pr.edu.
Fisnik JashariDepartment of Neurology, University Clinical Center of Kosovo, Prishtina 10000, Kosovo. fisnik.jashari@medicin.umu.se.
Shaip KrasniqiInstitute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Prishtina, Prishtina 10000, Kosovo. shaip.krasniqi@uni-pr.edu.
University of Prishtina · XKUniversity Clinical Center of Kosovo · XK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monogenic and polygenic mutations are important contributors in patients suffering from epilepsy, including metabolic epilepsies which are inborn errors of metabolism with a good respond to specific dietetic treatments. Heterozygous variation in solute carrier family 2, facilitated glucose transporter member 1 (SLC2A1) and mutations of the GLUT1/SLC2A2 gene results in the failure of glucose transport, which is related with a glucose type-1 transporter (GLUT1) deficiency syndrome (GLUT1DS). GLUT1 deficiency syndrome is a treatable disorder of glucose transport into the brain caused by a variety of mutations in the SLC2A1 gene which are the cause of different neurological disorders also with different types of epilepsy and related clinical phenotypes. Since patients continue to experience seizures due to a pharmacoresistance, an early clinical diagnosis associated with specific genetic testing in SLC2A1 pathogenic variants in clinical phenotypes could predict pure drug response and might improve safety and efficacy of treatment with the initiation of an alternative energy source including ketogenic or analog diets in such patients providing individualized strategy approaches.

Indexed as

AnticonvulsantsEpilepsyGenetic TestingGlucose Transporter Type 1HumansPharmacogeneticsPrecision MedicineAnticonvulsantsGlucose Transporter Type 1SLC2A1 protein, humandietepilepsyglucose transporter type-1 deficiencypharmacogenomicSLC2A1

Identifiers

PMID29303961
PMCPMC5796071
OpenAlexW2783866528

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