Dogs as a natural animal model of epilepsy

W Löscher - Frontiers in veterinary science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is a common neurological disease in both humans and domestic dogs, making
dogs an ideal translational model of epilepsy. In both species, epilepsy is a complex brain …

Zebrafish as an innovative tool for epilepsy modeling: state of the art and potential future directions

M D'Amora, A Galgani, M Marchese, F Tantussi… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article discusses the potential of Zebrafish (ZF)(Danio Rerio), as a model for epilepsy
research. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder affecting both children and adults, and many …

Photothermal inhibition of neural activity with near-infrared-sensitive nanotransducers

S Yoo, S Hong, Y Choi, JH Park, Y Nam - ACS nano, 2014 - ACS Publications
A neural stimulation technique that can inhibit neural activity reversibly and directly without
genetic modification is valuable for understating complex brain functions and treating brain …

Loss of system xc− does not induce oxidative stress but decreases extracellular glutamate in hippocampus and influences spatial working memory and limbic seizure …

D De Bundel, A Schallier, E Loyens… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
System xc− exchanges intracellular glutamate for extracellular cystine, giving it a potential
role in intracellular glutathione synthesis and nonvesicular glutamate release. We report that …

Arrested maturation of excitatory synapses in autosomal dominant lateral temporal lobe epilepsy

YD Zhou, S Lee, Z Jin, M Wright, SEP Smith… - Nature medicine, 2009 - nature.com
A subset of central glutamatergic synapses are coordinately pruned and matured by
unresolved mechanisms during postnatal development. We report that the human epilepsy …

Deletion of the Kv2. 1 delayed rectifier potassium channel leads to neuronal and behavioral hyperexcitability

DJ Speca, G Ogata, D Mandikian… - Genes, Brain and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The Kv2. 1 delayed rectifier potassium channel exhibits high‐level expression in both
principal and inhibitory neurons throughout the central nervous system, including prominent …

Zinc signaling and epilepsy

U Doboszewska, K Młyniec, A Wlaź, E Poleszak… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Evidence from both preclinical and clinical studies suggest the importance of zinc
homeostasis in seizures/epilepsy. Undoubtedly, zinc, via modulation of a variety of targets, is …

Quantitative diffusion MRI of hippocampus as a surrogate marker for post-traumatic epileptogenesis

I Kharatishvili, R Immonen, O Gröhn, A Pitkänen - Brain, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The need to use animal models to develop imaging markers that could be linked to
electrophysiological abnormalities in epilepsy and able to predict epileptogenicity in human …

Toward the use of novel alternative methods in epilepsy modeling and drug discovery

C Miguel Sanz, M Martinez Navarro… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease and, considering the amount of people affected of all
ages worldwide, one of the most common neurological disorders. Over 20 novel antiseizure …

GABAergic neuron deficit as an idiopathic generalized epilepsy mechanism: the role of BRD2 haploinsufficiency in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

L Velíšek, E Shang, J Velíšková, T Chachua… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) syndromes represent about 30% of all epilepsies.
They have strong, but elusive, genetic components and sex-specific seizure expression …