Neuroinflammatory pathways as treatment targets and biomarkers in epilepsy

A Vezzani, S Balosso, T Ravizza - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease characterized by an enduring propensity for
generation of seizures. The pathogenic processes of seizure generation and recurrence are …

The role of inflammation in epilepsy

A Vezzani, J French, T Bartfai, TZ Baram - Nature reviews neurology, 2011 - nature.com
Epilepsy is the third most common chronic brain disorder, and is characterized by an
enduring predisposition to generate seizures. Despite progress in pharmacological and …

Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors: future therapeutic strategies for epilepsy management

C Rawat, S Kukal, UR Dahiya, R Kukreti - Journal of neuroinflammation, 2019 - Springer
Epilepsy, a common multifactorial neurological disease, affects about 69 million people
worldwide constituting nearly 1% of the world population. Despite decades of extensive …

Phospholipase A2 reduction ameliorates cognitive deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

RO Sanchez-Mejia, JW Newman, S Toh, GQ Yu… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Neuronal expression of familial Alzheimer's disease–mutant human amyloid precursor
protein (hAPP) and hAPP-derived amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides causes synaptic dysfunction …

Role of inflammatory mediators in the pathogenesis of epilepsy

T Shimada, T Takemiya, H Sugiura… - Mediators of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic brain disorders worldwide, affecting 1% of
people across different ages and backgrounds. Epilepsy is defined as the sporadic …

Prostaglandin F receptor signaling facilitates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis independently of transforming growth factor-β

T Oga, T Matsuoka, C Yao, K Nonomura, S Kitaoka… - Nature medicine, 2009 - nature.com
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive disease characterized by fibroblast
proliferation and excess deposition of collagen and other extracellular matrix (ECM) …

Therapeutic role of targeting mTOR signaling and neuroinflammation in epilepsy

SL Hodges, JN Lugo - Epilepsy research, 2020 - Elsevier
Existing therapies for epilepsy are primarily symptomatic and target mechanisms of neuronal
transmission in order to restore the excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in the brain after seizures …

Visualization of the cell-selective distribution of PUFA-containing phosphatidylcholines in mouse brain by imaging mass spectrometry [S]

Y Sugiura, Y Konishi, N Zaima, S Kajihara… - Journal of lipid …, 2009 - ASBMB
Previous studies have shown that MALDI-imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) can be used to
visualize the distribution of various biomolecules, especially lipids, in the cells and tissues …

Immune mechanisms in epileptogenesis

D Xu, SD Miller, S Koh - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder that affects 1% of the human population worldwide.
Immune responses are implicated in seizure induction and the development of epilepsy. Pre …

Chemokines as new inflammatory players in the pathogenesis of epilepsy

C Cerri, M Caleo, Y Bozzi - Epilepsy Research, 2017 - Elsevier
A large series of clinical and experimental studies supports a link between inflammation and
epilepsy, indicating that inflammatory processes within the brain are important contributors …