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A Caenorhabditis elegans assay of seizure-like activity optimised for identifying antiepileptic drugs and their mechanisms of action
BACKGROUND: Epilepsy affects around 1% of people, but existing antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) only offer symptomatic relief and are ineffective in approximately 30% of patients. Hence, new AEDs are sorely needed. However, a major bottleneck is the low-throughput nature of early-stage AED screens in conv...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6200019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30189284 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2018.09.004 |