Antioxidants targeting mitochondrial oxidative stress: Promising neuroprotectants for epilepsy

N Yang, QW Guan, FH Chen, QX Xia… - Oxidative Medicine …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondria are major sources of reactive oxygen species (ROS) within the cell and are
especially vulnerable to oxidative stress. Oxidative damage to mitochondria results in …

Ketogenic diet and neuroinflammation

S Koh, N Dupuis, S Auvin - Epilepsy Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet (KD) is an established treatment for drug-
resistant epilepsy with a proven efficacy. The KD is being explored for Febrile Infection …

Single-target versus multi-target drugs versus combinations of drugs with multiple targets: preclinical and clinical evidence for the treatment or prevention of epilepsy

W Löscher - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Rationally designed multi-target drugs (also termed multimodal drugs, network therapeutics,
or designed multiple ligands) have emerged as an attractive drug discovery paradigm in the …

The interconnected mechanisms of oxidative stress and neuroinflammation in epilepsy

ALM Parsons, EMV Bucknor, E Castroflorio, TR Soares… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
One of the most important characteristics of the brain compared to other organs is its
elevated metabolic demand. Consequently, neurons consume high quantities of oxygen …

Crosstalk between neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in epilepsy

T Fabisiak, M Patel - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The roles of both neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of epilepsy
have begun to receive considerable attention in recent years. However, these concepts are …

Therapeutic strategies to ameliorate neuronal damage in epilepsy by regulating oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and neuroinflammation

S Madireddy, S Madireddy - Brain sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder involving spontaneous and recurring seizures
that affects 50 million individuals globally. Because approximately one-third of patients with …

Ferroptosis and its role in epilepsy

Y Cai, Z Yang - Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is one of the most common symptoms of many neurological disorders. The typical
excessive, synchronous and aberrant firing of neurons originating from different cerebral …

Seizure-induced oxidative stress in status epilepticus: is antioxidant beneficial?

TK Lin, SD Chen, KJ Lin, YC Chuang - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder which affects patients physically and mentally
and causes a real burden for the patient, family and society both medically and …

Repurposed molecules for antiepileptogenesis: Missing an opportunity to prevent epilepsy?

P Klein, A Friedman, MQ Hameed, RM Kaminski… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Prevention of epilepsy is a great unmet need. Acute central nervous system (CNS) insults
such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), and CNS infections …

Seizure-mediated iron accumulation and dysregulated iron metabolism after status epilepticus and in temporal lobe epilepsy

TS Zimmer, B David, DWM Broekaart… - Acta …, 2021 - Springer
Neuronal dysfunction due to iron accumulation in conjunction with reactive oxygen species
(ROS) could represent an important, yet underappreciated, component of the epileptogenic …