Animal models of drug-resistant epilepsy as tools for deciphering the cellular and molecular mechanisms of pharmacoresistance and discovering more effective …

W Löscher, HS White - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last 30 years, over 20 new anti-seizure medicines (ASMs) have been introduced into
the market for the treatment of epilepsy using well-established preclinical seizure and …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroinflammation microenvironment sharpens seizure circuit

B Villasana-Salazar, A Vezzani - Neurobiology of Disease, 2023 - Elsevier
A large set of inflammatory molecules and their receptors are induced in epileptogenic foci
of patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsies of structural etiologies or with refractory status …

New advances in pharmacoresistant epilepsy towards precise management-from prognosis to treatments

C Xu, Y Gong, Y Wang, Z Chen - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2022 - Elsevier
Epilepsy, one of the most severe neurological diseases, is characterized by abrupt recurrent
seizures. Despite great progress in the development of antiseizure drugs (ASDs) based on …

The claustrum-prelimbic cortex circuit through dynorphin/κ-opioid receptor signaling underlies depression-like behaviors associated with social stress etiology

YJ Wang, GY Zan, C Xu, XP Li, X Shu, SY Yao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ample evidence has suggested the stress etiology of depression, but the underlying
mechanism is not fully understood yet. Here, we report that chronic social defeat stress …

Inflachromene attenuates seizure severity in mouse epilepsy models via inhibiting HMGB1 translocation

S Dai, Y Shao, Y Zheng, J Sun, Z Li, J Shi… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2023 - nature.com
Epilepsy is not well controlled by current anti-seizure drugs (ASDs). High mobility group box
1 (HMGB1) is a DNA-binding protein in the nucleus regulating transcriptional activity and …

Neuroinflammation and status epilepticus: a narrative review unraveling a complex interplay

T Foiadelli, A Santangelo, G Costagliola… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Status epilepticus (SE) is a medical emergency resulting from the failure of the mechanisms
involved in seizure termination or from the initiation of pathways involved in abnormally …

[HTML][HTML] Secondary epileptogenesis: common to see, but possible to treat?

Y Shen, Y Gong, Y Ruan, Z Chen, C Xu - Frontiers in neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Secondary epileptogenesis is a common phenomenon in epilepsy, characterized by
epileptiform discharges from the regions outside the primary focus. It is one of the major …

[HTML][HTML] The role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in epileptogenesis: an update

X Wang, Z Hu, K Zhong - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy, which is characterized by spontaneous recurrent seizures, is one of the most
common and serious chronic neurological diseases in the world. 30% patients failed to …

Novel Caspase-1 inhibitor CZL80 improves neurological function in mice after progressive ischemic stroke within a long therapeutic time-window

L Pan, W Tang, K Wang, Q Fang, M Liu, Z Wu… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2022 - nature.com
Progressive ischemic stroke (PIS) is featured by progressive neurological dysfunction after
ischemia. Ischemia-evoked neuroinflammation is implicated in the progressive brain injury …

[HTML][HTML] The role of ATP1A3 gene in epilepsy: We need to know more

S Zou, YL Lan, Y Gong, Z Chen, C Xu - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The ATP1A3 gene which encodes the Na+/K+-ATPase α3 catalytic subunit plays a crucial
role in both physiological and pathological conditions in the brain, and mutations in this …