Novel therapeutic strategies for epilepsy--releasing the gene Genie

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Graeme J Sills. Epilepsy Curr. 2009 Jan-Feb.

. 2009 Jan-Feb;9(1):26-7.

doi: 10.1111/j.1535-7511.2008.01280.x.

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Neuropeptide Y gene therapy decreases chronic spontaneous seizures in a rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy.
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