| Literature DB >> 17520081 |
Luisa L Rocha1, Maria-Leonor Lopez-Meraz, Jerome Niquet, Claude G Wasterlain.
Abstract
The question of whether repeated single seizures cause neuronal death in the adult human brain is of great clinical importance and might have broad therapeutic implications. Reviewed here are recent studies on the effects of repeated single seizures (in the absence of status epilepticus) on hippocampal volume and on neuronal death markers in blood and in surgically ablated hippocampi.Entities:
Year: 2007 PMID: 17520081 PMCID: PMC1874327 DOI: 10.1111/j.1535-7511.2007.00178.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Epilepsy Curr ISSN: 1535-7511 Impact factor: 7.500