Potassium channel gain of function in epilepsy: an unresolved paradox

Z Niday, AV Tzingounis - The Neuroscientist, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Exome and targeted sequencing have revolutionized clinical diagnosis. This has been
particularly striking in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders, for which new genes or …

Ion channel genes and epilepsy: functional alteration, pathogenic potential, and mechanism of epilepsy

F Wei, LM Yan, T Su, N He, ZJ Lin, J Wang, YW Shi… - Neuroscience …, 2017 - Springer
Ion channels are crucial in the generation and modulation of excitability in the nervous
system and have been implicated in human epilepsy. Forty-one epilepsy-associated ion …

Potassium channels and epilepsy

K Gao, Z Lin, S Wen, Y Jiang - Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the development and application of next‐generation sequencing technology, the
aetiological diagnosis of genetic epilepsy is rapidly becoming easier and less expensive …

Astrocytic Atrophy Following Status Epilepticus Parallels Reduced Ca2+ Activity and Impaired Synaptic Plasticity in the Rat Hippocampus

A Plata, A Lebedeva, P Denisov, O Nosova… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is a group of neurological disorders commonly associated with the neuronal
malfunction leading to generation of seizures. Recent reports point to a possible contribution …

Recent advances in epilepsy genetics

A Orsini, F Zara, P Striano - Neuroscience letters, 2018 - Elsevier
In last few years there has been rapid increase in the knowledge of epilepsy genetics.
Nowadays, it is estimated that genetic epilepsies include over than 30% of all epilepsy …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in epilepsy genomics and genetic testing

M Hebbar, HC Mefford - F1000Research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a group of severe, early onset
epilepsies characterized by refractory seizures, developmental delay or regression …

Genetic potassium channel-associated epilepsies: Clinical review of the Kv family

NM Allen, S Weckhuysen, K Gorman, MD King… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Next-generation sequencing has enhanced discovery of many disease-associated genes in
previously unexplained epilepsies, mainly in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies …

Novel mutations and phenotypes of epilepsy‐associated genes in epileptic encephalopathies

P Zhou, N He, JW Zhang, ZJ Lin, J Wang… - Genes, Brain and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Epileptic encephalopathies are severe epilepsy disorders with strong genetic bases. We
performed targeted next‐generation sequencing (NGS) in 70 patients with epileptic …

Unravelling the enigma of cortical tremor and other forms of cortical myoclonus

A Latorre, L Rocchi, F Magrinelli, E Mulroy, A Berardelli… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Cortical tremor is a fine rhythmic oscillation involving distal upper limbs, linked to increased
sensorimotor cortex excitability, as seen in cortical myoclonus. Cortical tremor is the …

Human iPSC modeling reveals mutation-specific responses to gene therapy in a genotypically diverse dominant maculopathy

D Sinha, B Steyer, PK Shahi, KP Mueller… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
Dominantly inherited disorders are not typically considered to be therapeutic candidates for
gene augmentation. Here, we utilized induced pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal pigment …