Comparison of monocyte gene expression among patients with neurocysticercosis-associated epilepsy, Idiopathic Epilepsy and idiopathic headaches in India.
Vasudevan PrabhakaranDouglas A DrevetsGovindan RamajayamJosephine J ManojMichael P AndersonJay S HanasVedantam RajshekharAnna OommenHélène CarabinPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2017)
Expression of certain genes in blood monocytes can distinguish patients with NCC-related epilepsy from patients with active Idiopathic Epilepsy and idiopathic headaches. These findings are significant because they may lead to the development of new tools to screen for and monitor NCC patients without brain imaging.
Keyphrases
- gene expression
- end stage renal disease
- dendritic cells
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- poor prognosis
- dna methylation
- high resolution
- peripheral blood
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- endothelial cells
- resting state
- immune response
- brain injury
- multiple sclerosis
- patient reported outcomes
- long non coding rna
- functional connectivity
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- binding protein
- single cell
- genome wide analysis
- clinical evaluation