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mTORC2: The “Ace in the Hole” for a Broader Control of Epileptic Seizures?

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This Research Highlight was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82173796 and 82374064), and the Medical and Health Research Project of Zhejiang Province, China (2021RC097).

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    Shuo Zhang, Wei Huang & Cenglin Xu

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    Xiongfeng Guo & Cenglin Xu

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Zhang, S., Guo, X., Huang, W. et al. mTORC2: The “Ace in the Hole” for a Broader Control of Epileptic Seizures?. Neurosci. Bull. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-024-01187-1

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