Drug resistance in epilepsy: clinical impact, potential mechanisms, and new innovative treatment options

W Löscher, H Potschka, SM Sisodiya, A Vezzani - Pharmacological reviews, 2020 - ASPET
Epilepsy is a chronic neurologic disorder that affects over 70 million people worldwide.
Despite the availability of over 20 antiseizure drugs (ASDs) for symptomatic treatment of …

Astrocytes in the initiation and progression of epilepsy

A Vezzani, T Ravizza, P Bedner, E Aronica… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Epilepsy affects~ 65 million people worldwide. First-line treatment options include> 20
antiseizure medications, but seizure control is not achieved in approximately one-third of …

The DNA methylation in neurological diseases

S Younesian, AM Yousefi, M Momeny, SH Ghaffari… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation is critical for the normal development and functioning of the human brain,
such as the proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells, synaptic plasticity, neuronal …

Advances in the development of biomarkers for epilepsy

A Pitkänen, W Löscher, A Vezzani, AJ Becker… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Over 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. In nearly 30% of these cases, epilepsy
remains unsatisfactorily controlled despite the availability of over 20 antiepileptic drugs …

MicroRNA epigenetic signatures in human disease

K Piletič, T Kunej - Archives of toxicology, 2016 - Springer
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs that act as important regulators of gene
expression as part of the epigenetic machinery. In addition to posttranscriptional gene …

MicroRNAs in epilepsy: pathophysiology and clinical utility

DC Henshall, HM Hamer, RJ Pasterkamp… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Temporal lobe epilepsy is a common and frequently intractable seizure
disorder. Its pathogenesis is thought to involve large-scale alterations to the expression of …

MicroRNAs as regulators of brain function and targets for treatment of epilepsy

GP Brennan, DC Henshall - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Seizures result from hypersynchronous, abnormal firing of neuronal populations and are the
primary clinical symptom of the epilepsies. Brain tissue from animal models and patients …

[HTML][HTML] ATP and adenosine—Two players in the control of seizures and epilepsy development

E Beamer, M Kuchukulla, D Boison, T Engel - Progress in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite continuous advances in understanding the underlying pathogenesis of
hyperexcitable networks and lowered seizure thresholds, the treatment of epilepsy remains …

Precise detection of low-level somatic mutation in resected epilepsy brain tissue

NS Sim, A Ko, WK Kim, SH Kim, JS Kim, KW Shim… - Acta …, 2019 - Springer
Low-level somatic mutations have been shown to be the major genetic etiology of intractable
epilepsy. The extents thereof, however, have yet to be systematically and accurately …

[HTML][HTML] Astrocyte-neuron circuits in epilepsy

BS Purnell, M Alves, D Boison - Neurobiology of disease, 2023 - Elsevier
The epilepsies are a diverse spectrum of disease states characterized by spontaneous
seizures and associated comorbidities. Neuron-focused perspectives have yielded an array …