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Now We Can Tame the Wild West of Controlling Astrocytes for Treating Neocortical Epilepsy

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This Research Highlight was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82173796).

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  1. Department of Pharmacy, Women’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, China

    Yingying Tang

  2. Key Laboratory of Neuropharmacology and Translational Medicine of Zhejiang Province, School of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China

    Shuo Zhang & Cenglin Xu

  3. Department of Pharmacy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310003, China

    Shuo Zhang

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Tang, Y., Zhang, S. & Xu, C. Now We Can Tame the Wild West of Controlling Astrocytes for Treating Neocortical Epilepsy. Neurosci. Bull. 39, 1189–1190 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-023-01048-3

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