Medicinal plants utilized in the management of epilepsy in Ethiopia: ethnobotany, pharmacology and phytochemistry

YS Birhan - Chinese Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Epilepsy is a common central nervous system (CNS) disorder that affects 50 million people
worldwide. Patients with status epilepticus (SE) suffer from devastating comorbidities and a …

An update on the novel methods for the discovery of antiseizure and antiepileptogenic medications: where are we in 2024?

A Talevi, C Bellera - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Despite the availability of around 30 antiseizure medications, 1/3 of patients
with epilepsy fail to become seizure-free upon pharmacological treatment. Available …

Schaftoside suppresses pentylenetetrazol-induced seizures in zebrafish via suppressing apoptosis, modulating inflammation, and oxidative stress

J Dang, YN Paudel, X Yang, Q Ren… - ACS chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The lack of disease-modifying therapeutic strategies against epileptic seizures has caused a
surge in preclinical research focused on exploring and developing novel therapeutic …

SoxB1 activity regulates sensory neuron regeneration, maintenance, and function in planarians

KG Ross, AM Molinaro, C Romero, B Dockter… - Developmental cell, 2018 - cell.com
SoxB1 genes play fundamental roles in neurodevelopmental processes and maintaining
stem cell multipotency, but little is known about their function in regeneration. We addressed …

Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf, citral and geraniol exhibit anticonvulsant and neuroprotective effects in pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in zebrafish

ACM Hacke, E Miyoshi, JA Marques… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf (C. citratus) is consumed
as an infusion in folk medicine due to its pharmacological properties and action in the …

Characterisation and automated quantification of induced seizure‐related behaviours in Xenopus laevis tadpoles

S Panthi, PA Chapman, P Szyszka… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Epilepsy, a clinical diagnosis characterised by paroxysmal episodes known as seizures,
affects 1% of people worldwide. Safe and patient‐specific treatment is vital and can be …

A comparative study to optimize experimental conditions of pentylenetetrazol and pilocarpine-induced epilepsy in zebrafish larvae

D Szep, B Dittrich, A Gorbe, JL Szentpeteri, N Aly… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
A common way to investigate epilepsy and the effect of antiepileptic pharmaceuticals is to
analyze the movement patterns of zebrafish larvae treated with different convulsants like …

Drosophila melanogaster as a versatile model organism to study genetic epilepsies: An overview

FP Fischer, RA Karge, YG Weber, H Koch… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurological disorders, affecting more than 45 million
people worldwide. Recent advances in genetic techniques, such as next-generation …

Optimization of a locomotion-based zebrafish seizure model

PAG Shaw, SK Panda, A Stanca, W Luyten - Journal of neuroscience …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Locomotor assays in zebrafish have emerged as a screening test in early drug
discovery for antiseizure compounds. However, parameters differ considerably between …

Di-and tri-substituted s-triazine derivatives: Synthesis, characterization, anticancer activity in human breast-cancer cell lines, and developmental toxicity in zebrafish …

A El-Faham, M Farooq, Z Almarhoon… - Bioorganic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Here we report on a small library based on a 4-aminobenzonitile-s-triazine moiety. We used
a straightforward orthogonal synthetic pathway to prepare di-and tri-substituted s-triazine …