An update for epilepsy research and antiepileptic drug development: Toward precise circuit therapy

Y Wang, Z Chen - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
Epilepsy involves neuronal dysfunction at molecular, cellular, and circuit levels. The
understanding of the mechanism of the epilepsies has advanced greatly in the last three …

Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy

ZP Chen, S Wang, X Zhao, W Fang, Z Wang, H Ye… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Reactive astrocytes play an important role in neurological diseases, but their molecular and
functional phenotypes in epilepsy are unclear. Here, we show that in patients with temporal …

GABAergic interneurons in seizures: investigating causality with optogenetics

V Magloire, MS Mercier, DM Kullmann… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Seizures are complex pathological network events characterized by excessive and
hypersynchronized activity of neurons, including a highly diverse population of GABAergic …

[HTML][HTML] Activated astrocytes attenuate neocortical seizures in rodent models through driving Na+-K+-ATPase

J Zhao, J Sun, Y Zheng, Y Zheng, Y Shao, Y Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Epileptic seizures are widely regarded to occur as a result of the excitation-inhibition
imbalance from a neuro-centric view. Although astrocyte-neuron interactions are …

[HTML][HTML] Discrete subicular circuits control generalization of hippocampal seizures

F Fei, X Wang, C Xu, J Shi, Y Gong, H Cheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Epilepsy is considered a circuit-level dysfunction associated with imbalanced excitation-
inhibition, it is therapeutically necessary to identify key brain regions and related circuits in …

A sensitive and specific nanosensor for monitoring extracellular potassium levels in the brain

J Liu, F Li, Y Wang, L Pan, P Lin, B Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Extracellular potassium concentration affects the membrane potential of neurons, and, thus,
neuronal activity. Indeed, alterations of potassium levels can be related to neurological …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Low‐voltage fast seizures in humans begin with increased interneuron firing

B Elahian, NE Lado, E Mankin, S Vangala… - Annals of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Intracellular recordings from cells in entorhinal cortex tissue slices show that low‐
voltage fast (LVF) onset seizures are generated by inhibitory events. Here, we determined …

[HTML][HTML] An optogenetic kindling model of neocortical epilepsy

E Cela, AR McFarlan, AJ Chung, T Wang, S Chierzi… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Epileptogenesis is the gradual process by which the healthy brain develops epilepsy.
However, the neuronal circuit changes that underlie epileptogenesis are not well …

[HTML][HTML] KCC2 overexpression prevents the paradoxical seizure-promoting action of somatic inhibition

V Magloire, J Cornford, A Lieb, DM Kullmann… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Although cortical interneurons are apparently well-placed to suppress seizures, several
recent reports have highlighted a paradoxical role of perisomatic-targeting parvalbumin …