Animal models of epilepsy: use and limitations

L Kandratavicius, PA Balista… - Neuropsychiatric …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent seizures that affects
millions of people worldwide. Comprehension of the complex mechanisms underlying …

Ion channels in genetic epilepsy: from genes and mechanisms to disease-targeted therapies

J Oyrer, S Maljevic, IE Scheffer, SF Berkovic… - Pharmacological …, 2018 - ASPET
Epilepsy is a common and serious neurologic disease with a strong genetic component.
Genetic studies have identified an increasing collection of disease-causing genes. The …

Fatigue in neurological disorders

A Chaudhuri, PO Behan - The lancet, 2004 - thelancet.com
Chronic fatigue is a typical symptom of neurological diseases, and is most disabling in
multiple sclerosis, postpoliomyelitis, poststroke, and in chronic fatigue syndrome. Disorders …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular targets for antiepileptic drug development

BS Meldrum, MA Rogawski - Neurotherapeutics, 2007 - Elsevier
This review considers how recent advances in the physiology of ion channels and other
potential molecular targets, in conjunction with new information on the genetics of idiopathic …

Dysfunction of the brain calcium channel CaV2.1 in absence epilepsy and episodic ataxia

P Imbrici, SL Jaffe, LH Eunson, NP Davies, C Herd… - Brain, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The molecular basis of idiopathic generalized epilepsy remains poorly understood. Absence
epilepsy with 3 Hz spike–wave EEG is one of the most common human epilepsies, and is …

A voltage-gated calcium channel regulates lysosomal fusion with endosomes and autophagosomes and is required for neuronal homeostasis

X Tian, U Gala, Y Zhang, W Shang… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Autophagy helps deliver sequestered intracellular cargo to lysosomes for proteolytic
degradation and thereby maintains cellular homeostasis by preventing accumulation of toxic …

The role of auxiliary subunits for the functional diversity of voltage‐gated calcium channels

M Campiglio, BE Flucher - Journal of cellular physiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Voltage‐gated calcium channels (VGCCs) represent the sole mechanism to convert
membrane depolarization into cellular functions like secretion, contraction, or gene …

Effects of pyrethroids on voltage-sensitive calcium channels: a critical evaluation of strengths, weaknesses, data needs, and relationship to assessment of cumulative …

TJ Shafer, DA Meyer - Toxicology and applied pharmacology, 2004 - Elsevier
The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 requires that the US Environmental Protection
Agency conduct cumulative risk assessments for classes of pesticides that have a common …

Pharmacology of absence epilepsy

JPA Manning, DA Richards, NG Bowery - Trends in Pharmacological …, 2003 - cell.com
Absence epilepsy, a disease predominantly of childhood, has long been known to arise from
an aberration of the interplay between two brain regions, the cortex and the thalamus …

Epilepsy characteristics in neurodevelopmental disorders: Research from patient cohorts and animal models focusing on autism spectrum disorder

S Chakraborty, R Parayil, S Mishra… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Epilepsy, a heterogeneous group of brain-related diseases, has continued to significantly
burden society and families. Epilepsy comorbid with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) …