Cortical alterations in a model for absence epilepsy and febrile seizures: In vivo findings in mice carrying a human GABA(A)R gamma2 subunit mutation

Jens Witsch; Daniel Golkowski; Thomas TG Hahn; Steven Petrou; Hartwig Spors

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Cortical alterations in a model for absence epilepsy and febrile seizures: In vivo findings in mice carrying a human GABA(A)R gamma2 subunit mutation

Jens Witsch, Daniel Golkowski, Thomas TG Hahn, Steven Petrou, Hartwig Spors

NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE | ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2015.02.018

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a grant of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to Hartwig Spors (BMBF grant 01GA0504). Jens Witsch's work was supported by a research fellowship of the Max-Planck Society and by a research fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Wi4300/1-1). Daniel Golkowski's work was supported by a research fellowship of the Max-Planck Society. Thomas Hahn's work was supported by the Max-Planck Society, Germany, and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF grants 01GQ1007 and 01GQ1003B).Steven Petrou's work was supported by NHMRC program grant 400121 and NMHRC fellowship 1005050. The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health is supported by Victorian State Government infrastructure funds.