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Epilepsy Research and Treatment
Volume 2011, Article ID 758407, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/758407
Research Article

Characterization of the Gene Expression Profile of Human Hippocampus in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with Hippocampal Sclerosis

Julio Lachos,1,2,3 Michela Zattoni,1 Heinz-Gregor Wieser,3 Jean-Marc Fritschy,4 Thomas Langmann,5 Gerd Schmitz,5 Mariella Errede,6 Daniela Virgintino,6 Yasuhiro Yonekawa,1 and Karl Frei1

1Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
2Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
3Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Zurich, Culmannstrasse 8, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
4Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
5Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
6Department of Human Anatomy and Histology, Medical School, Bari University, 70124 Bari, Italy

Received 2 September 2010; Revised 10 December 2010; Accepted 1 January 2011

Academic Editor: Giangennaro Coppola

Copyright © 2011 Julio Lachos et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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