Neuron–glia interactions in the pathophysiology of epilepsy

DC Patel, BP Tewari, L Chaunsali… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder afflicting~ 65 million people worldwide. It is caused by
aberrant synchronized firing of populations of neurons primarily due to imbalance between …

[HTML][HTML] Going the extra (synaptic) mile: excitotoxicity as the road toward neurodegenerative diseases

A Armada-Moreira, JI Gomes, CC Pina… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Excitotoxicity is a phenomenon that describes the toxic actions of excitatory
neurotransmitters, primarily glutamate, where the exacerbated or prolonged activation of …

[HTML][HTML] Astrocytes as guardians of neuronal excitability: mechanisms underlying epileptogenesis

QP Verhoog, L Holtman, E Aronica… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Astrocytes are key homeostatic regulators in the central nervous system and play important
roles in physiology. After brain damage caused by eg, status epilepticus, traumatic brain …

Role of glutamate excitotoxicity and glutamate transporter EAAT2 in epilepsy: Opportunities for novel therapeutics development

JL Green, WF Dos Santos, ACK Fontana - Biochemical pharmacology, 2021 - Elsevier
Epilepsy is a complex neurological syndrome characterized by seizures resulting from
neuronal hyperexcitability and sudden and synchronized bursts of electrical discharges …

[HTML][HTML] Excitatory amino acid transporters in physiology and disorders of the central nervous system

AR Malik, TE Willnow - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs) encompass a class of five transporters with
distinct expression in neurons and glia of the central nervous system (CNS). EAATs are …

[HTML][HTML] Astrocytes as a target for therapeutic strategies in epilepsy: current insights

N Çarçak, F Onat, E Sitnikova - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Astrocytes are specialized non-neuronal glial cells of the central nervous system,
contributing to neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission (gliotransmission). Astrocytes …

HSP70 and HSP90 in neurodegenerative diseases

A Gupta, A Bansal, K Hashimoto-Torii - Neuroscience letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Molecular chaperones have a role to stabilize proteins or assist them in reaching their native
fold. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a family of molecular chaperons that protect proteins …

[HTML][HTML] The Hsp70–Hsp90 go-between Hop/Stip1/Sti1 is a proteostatic switch and may be a drug target in cancer and neurodegeneration

K Bhattacharya, D Picard - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Hsp70 and Hsp90 molecular chaperone systems are critical regulators of
protein homeostasis (proteostasis) in eukaryotes under normal and stressed conditions. The …

[HTML][HTML] Astrocyte glutamate uptake and signaling as novel targets for antiepileptogenic therapy

AR Peterson, DK Binder - Frontiers in neurology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Astrocytes regulate and respond to extracellular glutamate levels in the central nervous
system (CNS) via the Na+-dependent glutamate transporters glutamate transporter-1 (GLT …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of HSP90β improves lipid disorders by promoting mature SREBPs degradation via the ubiquitin-proteasome system

ZG Zheng, X Zhang, XX Liu, XX Jin, L Dai… - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Heat shock protein 9 (HSP90) are a family of the most highly expressed cellular
proteins and attractive drug targets against cancer, neurodegeneration diseases, etc …