Irritable No More: Activating Mossy Cells for the Treatment of Epilepsy

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Young J Kim et al. Epilepsy Curr. 2018 Jul-Aug.

. 2018 Jul-Aug;18(4):251-252.

doi: 10.5698/1535-7597.18.4.251.

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Dentate gyrus mossy cells control spontaneous convulsive seizures and spatial memory.
Bui AD, Nguyen TM, Limouse C, Kim HK, Szabo GG, Felong S, Maroso M, Soltesz I. Bui AD, et al. Science. 2018 Feb 16;359(6377):787-790. doi: 10.1126/science.aan4074. Science. 2018. PMID: 29449490 Free PMC article.

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