Mechanisms of action of currently used antiseizure drugs

GJ Sills, MA Rogawski - Neuropharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Antiseizure drugs (ASDs) prevent the occurrence of seizures; there is no evidence that they
have disease-modifying properties. In the more than 160 years that orally administered …

Peripheral voltage-gated cation channels in neuropathic pain and their potential as therapeutic targets

SRA Alles, PA Smith - Frontiers in Pain Research, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The persistence of increased excitability and spontaneous activity in injured peripheral
neurons is imperative for the development and persistence of many forms of neuropathic …

Lacosamide in patients with Nav1.7 mutations-related small fibre neuropathy: a randomized controlled trial

BTA de Greef, JGJ Hoeijmakers, M Geerts, M Oakes… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Symptomatic treatment of neuropathic pain in small fibre neuropathy is often disappointing.
The finding of voltage-gated sodium channel mutations in small fibre neuropathy (with …

Pain relief in a neuropathy patient by lacosamide: Proof of principle of clinical translation from patient-specific iPS cell-derived nociceptors

B Namer, D Schmidt, E Eberhardt, M Maroni… - …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Small fiber neuropathy (SFN) is a severe and disabling chronic pain syndrome
with no causal and limited symptomatic treatment options. Mechanistically based individual …

Mutations in SCN3A cause early infantile epileptic encephalopathy

T Zaman, I Helbig, IB Božović, SD DeBrosse… - Annals of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Voltage‐gated sodium (Na+) channels underlie action potential generation and
propagation and hence are central to the regulation of excitability in the nervous system …

Novel and emerging electrophysiological biomarkers of diabetic neuropathy and painful diabetic neuropathy

A Marshall, U Alam, A Themistocleous, N Calcutt… - Clinical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is the most common complication of
diabetes. Small and large peripheral nerve fibers can be involved in DPN. Large nerve fiber …

Pharmacology of lacosamide: from its molecular mechanisms and pharmacokinetics to future therapeutic applications

A Carona, J Bicker, R Silva, C Fonseca, A Falcão… - Life Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Epilepsy is one of the most common brain disorders, affecting more than 50 million people
worldwide. Although its treatment is currently symptomatic, the last generation of anti-seizure …

Differential effect of lacosamide on Nav1.7 variants from responsive and non-responsive patients with small fibre neuropathy

JIR Labau, M Estacion, BS Tanaka, BTA de Greef… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Small fibre neuropathy is a common pain disorder, which in many cases fails to respond to
treatment with existing medications. Gain-of-function mutations of voltage-gated sodium …

Using stratified medicine to understand, diagnose, and treat neuropathic pain

AC Themistocleous, G Crombez, G Baskozos… - Pain, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Neuropathic pain (NeuP) is defined as pain arising from a lesion or disease of the
somatosensory nervous system. 38, 86 Neuropathic pain is common, affecting …

Persistent sodium currents in neurons: potential mechanisms and pharmacological blockers

P Müller, A Draguhn, AV Egorov - Pflügers Archiv-European Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Persistent sodium current (INaP) is an important activity-dependent regulator of neuronal
excitability. It is involved in a variety of physiological and pathological processes, including …