Prenatal Environmental Exposure and Neurodevelopmentally Important Gene Expression in Malformed Brain Tissue from Pediatric Intractable Epilepsy Patients

The primary objective of this proposal was to determine whether mitochondrial oxidative stress and variation in a particular mtDNA lineage contribute to the risk of developing cortical dysplasia and are potential contributing factors in epileptogenesis in children. The occurrence of epilepsy in chil...

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Main Author: Luna, Brenda
Format: Others
Published: FIU Digital Commons 2011
Subjects:
MCD
Online Access:http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/445
http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1541&context=etd