New Targets in the Treatment of Chronic Epilepsy (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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New Targets in the Treatment of Chronic Epilepsy (1 of 1)

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An artist's illustration of a seizure discharge recorded from a slice of human epileptic brain tissue with electrodes. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 30 May, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by E. Dossi at INSERM in Paris, France; and colleagues was titled, ""Pannexin-1 channels contribute to seizure generation in human epileptic brain tissue and in a mouse model of epilepsy."

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E. Dossi et al., Science Translational Medicine (2018)

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