A disinhibitory nigra-parafascicular pathway amplifies seizure in temporal lobe epilepsy

B Chen, C Xu, Y Wang, W Lin, Y Wang, L Chen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The precise circuit of the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) involved in temporal lobe
epilepsy (TLE) is still unclear. Here we found that optogenetic or chemogenetic activation of …

Direct septum-hippocampus cholinergic circuit attenuates seizure through driving somatostatin inhibition

Y Wang, YI Wang, C Xu, S Wang, N Tan, C Chen… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Previous studies indicated the involvement of cholinergic neurons in seizure;
however, the specific role of the medial septum (MS)-hippocampus cholinergic circuit in …

Pharmaco‐genetic inhibition of pyramidal neurons retards hippocampal kindling‐induced epileptogenesis

LY Chen, J Liang, F Fei, YP Ruan… - CNS neuroscience & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Pharmaco‐genetics emerges as a new promising approach for epileptic seizures.
Whether it can modulate epileptogenesis is still unknown. Methods Here, parvalbumin …