Role of the orexin system in the bidirectional relation between sleep and epilepsy: New chances for patients with epilepsy by the antagonism to orexin receptors?

C Berteotti, C Calvello, C Liguori - Epilepsia, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, affecting patients of all ages, reducing the
quality of life, and associated with several comorbidities. Sleep impairment is a frequent …

The interaction between sleep and epilepsy

AH Roliz, S Kothare - Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To review the mutual interactions between sleep and epilepsy,
including mechanisms of epileptogenesis, the relationship between sleep apnea and …

Self-assembled lecithin-chitosan nanoparticles improved rotigotine nose-to-brain delivery and brain targeting efficiency

P Saha, P Singh, H Kathuria, D Chitkara, MM Pandey - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Rotigotine (RTG) is a non-ergoline dopamine agonist and an approved drug for treating
Parkinson's disease. However, its clinical use is limited due to various problems, viz. poor …

Bypassing the blood–brain barrier: direct intracranial drug delivery in epilepsies

M Gernert, M Feja - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Epilepsies are common chronic neurological diseases characterized by recurrent
unprovoked seizures of central origin. The mainstay of treatment involves symptomatic …

Orexin receptor antagonists in the pathophysiology and treatment of sleep disorders and epilepsy

M Sheibani, M Shayan, M Khalilzadeh, M Ghasemi… - Neuropeptides, 2023 - Elsevier
The correlation between sleep and epilepsy has been argued over the past decades among
scientists. Although the similarities and contrasts between sleep and epilepsy had been …

Nose-to-brain delivery of rotigotine redispersible nanosuspension: In vitro and in vivo characterization

P Saha, H Kathuria, MM Pandey - Journal of Drug Delivery Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rotigotine (RTG) is an anti-Parkinson's drug approved by the USFDA to treat motor and non-
motor symptoms of both early and advanced stages of the disease. However, issues like …

Transient targeting of hypothalamic orexin neurons alleviates seizures in a mouse model of epilepsy

HT Li, P Viskaitis, E Bracey, D Peleg-Raibstein… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Lateral hypothalamic (LH) hypocretin/orexin neurons (HONs) control brain-wide electrical
excitation. Abnormally high excitation produces epileptic seizures, which affect millions of …

International union of basic and clinical pharmacology CXIV: Orexin receptor function, nomenclature and pharmacology

JP Kukkonen, LH Jacobson, D Hoyer, MK Rinne… - Pharmacological …, 2024 - Elsevier
The orexin system consists of the peptide transmitters orexin-A and-B and the G protein-
coupled orexin receptors OX 1 and OX 2. Orexin receptors are capable of coupling to all four …

Progressive cardiorespiratory dysfunction in Kv1. 1 knockout mice may provide temporal biomarkers of pending sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP): The …

SH Iyer, A Aggarwal, TJ Warren, J Hallgren… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Immediately preceding sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), patients
experienced a final generalized tonic‐clonic seizure (GTCS), rapid ventilation, apnea …

Revisiting the role of anxiety in the initial acquisition of two-way active avoidance: Pharmacological, behavioural and neuroanatomical convergence

A Fernández-Teruel, A Tobena - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Two-way active avoidance (TWAA) acquisition constitutes a particular case of approach–
avoidance conflict for laboratory rodents. The present article reviews behavioural …