Dopamine, immunity, and disease

B Channer, SM Matt, EA Nickoloff-Bybel, V Pappa… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - ASPET
The neurotransmitter dopamine is a key factor in central nervous system (CNS) function,
regulating many processes including reward, movement, and cognition. Dopamine also …

Drug resistance in epilepsy: clinical impact, potential mechanisms, and new innovative treatment options

W Löscher, H Potschka, SM Sisodiya, A Vezzani - Pharmacological reviews, 2020 - ASPET
Epilepsy is a chronic neurologic disorder that affects over 70 million people worldwide.
Despite the availability of over 20 antiseizure drugs (ASDs) for symptomatic treatment of …

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 pharmacology and clinical efficacy of antiseizure medications: from bromide salts to cenobamate and beyond

W Löscher, P Klein - CNS drugs, 2021 - Springer
Epilepsy is one of the most common and disabling chronic neurological disorders.
Antiseizure medications (ASMs), previously referred to as anticonvulsant or antiepileptic …

Genome-wide association study of intracranial aneurysms identifies 17 risk loci and genetic overlap with clinical risk factors

MK Bakker, RAA van der Spek, W van Rheenen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Rupture of an intracranial aneurysm leads to subarachnoid hemorrhage, a severe type of
stroke. To discover new risk loci and the genetic architecture of intracranial aneurysms, we …

Trigeminal neuralgia: An overview from pathophysiology to pharmacological treatments

E Gambeta, JG Chichorro, GW Zamponi - Molecular pain, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The trigeminal nerve (V) is the fifth and largest of all cranial nerves, and it is responsible for
detecting sensory stimuli that arise from the craniofacial area. The nerve is divided into three …

Tuberous sclerosis complex

EP Henske, S Jóźwiak, JC Kingswood… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal dominant disorder that affects multiple
organ systems and is caused by loss-of-function mutations in one of two genes: TSC1 or …

Systematic integration of biomedical knowledge prioritizes drugs for repurposing

DS Himmelstein, A Lizee, C Hessler, L Brueggeman… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The ability to computationally predict whether a compound treats a disease would improve
the economy and success rate of drug approval. This study describes Project Rephetio to …

Valproic acid and epilepsy: from molecular mechanisms to clinical evidences

M Romoli, P Mazzocchetti, R D'Alonzo… - Current …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
After more than a century from its discovery, valproic acid (VPA) still represents one of the
most efficient antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Pre and post-synaptic effects of VPA depend on a …

TMS and drugs revisited 2014

U Ziemann, J Reis, P Schwenkreis, M Rosanova… - Clinical …, 2015 - Elsevier
The combination of pharmacology and transcranial magnetic stimulation to study the effects
of drugs on TMS-evoked EMG responses (pharmaco-TMS-EMG) has considerably improved …