Optogenetic and potassium channel gene therapy in a rodent model of focal neocortical epilepsy

RC Wykes, JH Heeroma, L Mantoan, K Zheng… - Science translational …, 2012 - science.org
Neocortical epilepsy is frequently drug-resistant. Surgery to remove the epileptogenic zone
is only feasible in a minority of cases, leaving many patients without an effective treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Presubiculum principal cells are preserved from degeneration in knock-in APP/TAU mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

A Islam, T Saito, T Saido, AB Ali - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The presubiculum (PRS) is an integral component of the perforant pathway that has recently
been recognised as a relatively unscathed region in clinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

[HTML][HTML] Lamotrigine rescues neuronal alterations and prevents seizure-induced memory decline in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

E Rizzello, D Pimpinella, A Pignataro, G Titta… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Epilepsy is a comorbidity associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), often starting many
years earlier than memory decline. Investigating this association in the early pre …

Intraneuronal Aβ accumulation induces hippocampal neuron hyperexcitability through A-type K+ current inhibition mediated by activation of caspases and GSK-3

F Scala, S Fusco, C Ripoli, R Piacentini, DDL Puma… - Neurobiology of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Amyloid β-protein (Aβ) pathologies have been linked to dysfunction of excitability in neurons
of the hippocampal circuit, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this process are still …

[HTML][HTML] Altered intrinsic excitability of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons in aged PDAPP mice

F Tamagnini, J Novelia, TL Kerrigan… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Amyloidopathy involves the accumulation of insoluble amyloid β (Aβ) species in the brain's
parenchyma and is a key histopathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Work on …

Intrinsic excitability changes induced by acute treatment of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons with exogenous amyloid β peptide

F Tamagnini, S Scullion, JT Brown, AD Randall - Hippocampus, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulation of beta‐amyloid (Aβ) peptides in the human brain is a canonical pathological
hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent work in Aβ‐overexpressing transgenic mice …

Seeing early signs of Alzheimer's disease through the lens of the eye

BT Reed, F Behar-Cohen… - Current Alzheimer …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) develops undetected for years due to the lack of
early diagnostic biomarkers. In advanced AD, visual deficits related to cortical …

[HTML][HTML] The amyloid precursor protein C-terminal domain alters CA1 neuron firing, modifying hippocampus oscillations and impairing spatial memory encoding

PA Pousinha, X Mouska, D Bianchi, M Temido-Ferreira… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
There is a growing consensus that Alzheimer's disease (AD) involves failure of the
homeostatic machinery, which underlies the firing stability of neural circuits. What are the …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of altered intrinsic excitability in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells of the Aβ-overproducing PDAPP mouse

TL Kerrigan, JT Brown, AD Randall - Neuropharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
Transgenic mice that accumulate Aβ peptides in the CNS are commonly used to interrogate
functional consequences of Alzheimer's disease-associated amyloidopathy. In addition to …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of age-dependent alterations in excitability properties of CA1 pyramidal neurons in an APPPS1 model of Alzheimer's disease

P Vitale, AR Salgueiro-Pereira, CA Lupascu… - Frontiers in aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Age-dependent accumulation of amyloid-β, provoking increasing brain amyloidopathy,
triggers abnormal patterns of neuron activity and circuit synchronization in Alzheimer's …