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Brain inflammation initiates seizures

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Interfering with the adhesion of immune cells to the cerebral vasculature holds seizures in check, potentially opening a new realm of therapeutics (pages 1377–1383).

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Figure 1: Firing up a seizure.

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  1. Jonathan K. Kleen and Gregory L. Holmes are in the Department of Neurology, Dartmouth Medical School, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA. Gregory.L.Holmes@Dartmouth.edu,

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Kleen, J., Holmes, G. Brain inflammation initiates seizures. Nat Med 14, 1309–1310 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1208-1309

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