Description:
MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY NEONATAL WITH SUPPRESSION-BURST PATTERN
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Repository
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NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository
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| Subcollection |
Heritable Diseases |
| Class |
Disorders of the Nervous System |
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Cell Type
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Fibroblast
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Transformant
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Untransformed
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Race
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White
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Relation to Proband
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proband
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Confirmation
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Clinical summary/Case history
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Species
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Homo sapiens
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Common Name
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Human
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Remarks
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| Passage Frozen |
1 |
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| IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIES OF ORIGIN |
Species of Origin Confirmed by Nucleoside Phosphorylase, Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, and Lactate Dehydrogenase Isoenzyme Electrophoresis |
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| Remarks |
Clinically affected; mother noted unusual tremor-like fetal movements in utero 3-4 weeks before delivery; at birth: large head, jittery, stiff, with poor suck; at age 2 weeks: stiffening seizure, duskiness, auditory startle and bradycardia; since then: recurring stiffening seizures, bradycardia, myoclonus, jitteriness, and abnormal EEG (central apneas present); BAER revealed only waveforms I and III suggestive of upper pontine dysfunction; regular seizures from 1 to 5 per day; poor oral motor skills; will not follow with gaze; on phenobarbital and Klonopin |
| Passage Frozen |
1 |
| Split Ratio |
1:5 |
| Temperature |
37 C |
| Percent CO2 |
5% |
| Medium |
Eagle's Minimum Essential Medium with Earle's salts and non-essential amino acids with 2mM L-glutamine or equivalent |
| Serum |
15% fetal bovine serum Not inactivated |
| Substrate |
None specified |
| Subcultivation Method |
trypsin-EDTA |
| Supplement |
- |
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