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HERO ID
205860
Reference Type
Journal Article
Title
Fragile X syndrome and epilepsy
Author(s)
Qiu, LF; Hao, YH; Li, QZ; Xiong, ZQ
Year
2008
Is Peer Reviewed?
1
Journal
Neuroscience Bulletin
ISSN:
1673-7067
EISSN:
1995-8218
Volume
24
Issue
5
Page Numbers
338-344
Language
English
Abstract
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is one of the most prevalent mental retardations. It is mainly caused by the loss of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). FMRP is an RNA binding protein and can regulate the translation of its binding RNA, thus regulate several signaling pathways. Many FXS patients show high susceptibility to epilepsy. Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder which is characterized by the recurrent appearance of spontaneous seizures due to neuronal hyperactivity in the brain. Both the abnormal activation of several signaling pathway and morphological abnormality that are caused by the loss of FMRP can lead to a high susceptibility to epilepsy. Combining with the research progresses on both FXS and epilepsy, we outlined the possible mechanisms of high susceptibility to epilepsy in FXS and tried to give a prospect on the future research on the mechanism of epilepsy that happened in other mental retardations. [References: 56]
Keywords
*Brain/pp [Physiopathology]; *Epilepsy/et [Etiology]; Epilepsy/ge [Genetics]; Epilepsy/pa [Pathology]; Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein/ge [Genetics]; Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein/me [Metabolism]; *Fragile X Syndrome/co [Complications]; Fragile X Syndrome/ge [Genetics]; Humans; RNA-Binding Proteins/me [Metabolism]; 0 (FMR1 protein, human); 0 (RNA-Binding Proteins); 139135-51-6 (Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein)
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