Zebrafish as a robust preclinical platform for screening plant-derived drugs with anticonvulsant properties—a review

B Knap, D Nieoczym, U Kundap… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Traditionally, selected plant sources have been explored for medicines to treat convulsions.
This continues today, especially in countries with low-income rates and poor medical …

Use of zebrafish models to boost research in rare genetic diseases

L Crouzier, EM Richard, J Sourbron, L Lagae… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Rare genetic diseases are a group of pathologies with often unmet clinical needs. Even if
rare by a single genetic disease (from 1/2000 to 1/more than 1,000,000), the total number of …

6-Gingerol, a Major Constituent of Zingiber officinale Rhizoma, Exerts Anticonvulsant Activity in the Pentylenetetrazole-Induced Seizure Model in Larval Zebrafish

K Gawel, W Kukula-Koch, NS Banono… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Zingiber officinale is one of the most frequently used medicinal herbs in Asia. Using rodent
seizure models, it was previously shown that Zingiber officinale hydroethanolic extract exerts …

Loss of glutamate transporter eaat2a leads to aberrant neuronal excitability, recurrent epileptic seizures, and basal hypoactivity

AL Hotz, A Jamali, NN Rieser, S Niklaus, E Aydin… - Glia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Astroglial excitatory amino acid transporter 2 (EAAT2, GLT‐1, and SLC1A2) regulates the
duration and extent of neuronal excitation by removing glutamate from the synaptic cleft …

Discovery of (R)-N-Benzyl-2-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)propanamide [(R)-AS-1], a Novel Orally Bioavailable EAAT2 Modulator with Drug-like Properties and Potent Antiseizure …

M Abram, M Jakubiec, K Reeb, MH Cheng… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
(R)-7 [(R)-AS-1] showed broad-spectrum antiseizure activity across in vivo mouse seizure
models: maximal electroshock (MES), 6 Hz (32/44 mA), acute pentylenetetrazol (PTZ), and …

Toward the use of novel alternative methods in epilepsy modeling and drug discovery

C Miguel Sanz, M Martinez Navarro… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease and, considering the amount of people affected of all
ages worldwide, one of the most common neurological disorders. Over 20 novel antiseizure …

Imaging approaches to investigate pathophysiological mechanisms of brain disease in zebrafish

L Turrini, L Roschi, G de Vito, FS Pavone… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Zebrafish has become an essential model organism in modern biomedical research. Owing
to its distinctive features and high grade of genomic homology with humans, it is increasingly …

Pericardial injection of kainic acid induces a chronic epileptic state in larval zebrafish

L Heylen, DH Pham, AS De Meulemeester… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is a common disorder of the brain characterized by spontaneous recurrent
seizures, which develop gradually during a process called epileptogenesis. The mechanistic …

Glial Cell Development and Function in the Zebrafish Central Nervous System

T Czopka, K Monk, F Peri - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Over the past decades the zebrafish has emerged as an excellent model organism with
which to study the biology of all glial cell types in nervous system development, plasticity …

Longitudinal MRI brain studies in live adult zebrafish

N Hamilton, C Allen, S Reynolds - NMR in Biomedicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) has been successfully used for decades in developmental studies
and disease modelling. The remarkable uptake of zebrafish as a model system is partly due …