Astrocyte and glutamate involvement in the pathogenesis of epilepsy in Alzheimer's disease

H Dejakaisaya, P Kwan, NC Jones - Epilepsia, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) can increase the risk of epilepsy by up to 10‐fold compared to
healthy age‐matched controls. However, the pathological mechanisms that underlie this …

Pretreatment with a glutamine synthetase inhibitor MSO delays the onset of initial seizures induced by pilocarpine in juvenile rats

MJ Pawlik, M Obara-Michlewska, MP Popek… - Brain research, 2021 - Elsevier
The contribution of glutamatergic transmission to generation of initial convulsive seizures
(CS) is debated. We tested whether pretreatment with a glutamine synthetase (GS) inhibitor …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of glutamate release, but not of glutamine recycling to glutamate, is involved in delaying the onset of initial lithium-pilocarpine-induced seizures in …

MJ Pawlik, BI Aldana, LF Belfiori-Carrasco… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Initial seizures observed in young rats during the 60 min after administration of pilocarpine
(Pilo) were delayed and attenuated by pretreatment with a non-convulsive dose of …

Mechanistic Insight into the Attenuation of Initial Pilocarpine-Induced Seizures in Young Rats by a Non-Convulsive MSO Dose

MJ Pawlik, BI Aldana, LF Belfiori-Carrasco… - 2021 - preprints.org
Pretreatment with non-convulsive dose of methionine sulfoximine (MSO) attenuated lithi-um-
pilocarpine-induced (Li-Pilo) seizures in young rats [1]. We hypothesized that the effect of …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of an unusual murine glial cell population in dorsal root ganglia

B Huang - 2021 - elib.tiho-hannover.de
Dorsal root ganglia (DRG) represent accumulations of neurons located near the neural
foramina at the dorsal root of each spinal nerve. They contain pseudounipolar neurons with …