{"title":"Substantia nigra GABA receptors can mediate anticonvulsant or proconvulsant effects.","authors":"S L Moshé, D S Garant","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77115,"journal":{"name":"Epilepsy research. Supplement","volume":"12 ","pages":"247-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20241942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P A Schwartzkroin, P S Buckmaster, B W Strowbridge, D D Kunkel, J Owens, J Pokorný
{"title":"Possible mechanisms of seizure-related cell damage in the dentate hilus.","authors":"P A Schwartzkroin, P S Buckmaster, B W Strowbridge, D D Kunkel, J Owens, J Pokorný","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77115,"journal":{"name":"Epilepsy research. Supplement","volume":"12 ","pages":"317-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20241950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relationship between seizures and damage in the maturing brain.","authors":"E F Sperber","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77115,"journal":{"name":"Epilepsy research. Supplement","volume":"12 ","pages":"365-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20241955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G W Mathern, J P Leite, J K Pretorius, B Quinn, W J Peacock, T L Babb
{"title":"Severe seizures in young children are associated with hippocampal neuron losses and aberrant mossy fiber sprouting during fascia dentata postnatal development.","authors":"G W Mathern, J P Leite, J K Pretorius, B Quinn, W J Peacock, T L Babb","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77115,"journal":{"name":"Epilepsy research. Supplement","volume":"12 ","pages":"33-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20244070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NMDA and non-NMDA synaptic currents in rat neocortex during early postnatal development.","authors":"J J Hablitz, E C Burgard","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77115,"journal":{"name":"Epilepsy research. Supplement","volume":"12 ","pages":"45-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20244071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genomic structure, sequence, and physiological expression of mKv 1.5, a mouse potassium channel gene.","authors":"V A Street, W F Hopkins, B L Tempel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77115,"journal":{"name":"Epilepsy research. Supplement","volume":"12 ","pages":"165-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20244084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of rational polypharmacy to treat epilepsy.","authors":"J A Ferrendelli","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77115,"journal":{"name":"Epilepsy research. Supplement","volume":"11 ","pages":"239-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20234875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Definition of rational antiepileptic polypharmacy.","authors":"B J Wilder, R W Homan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rational polypharmacy is in its earliest stages of development and will require substantial additional development to realize its full potential. Indeed, despite the powerful appeal of the concept, clinical proof is not yet available that RP is superior to monotherapy. Important questions need to be addressed: 1. Will RP control seizures more effectively than monotherapy? 2. What data are needed to develop RP for a specific patient? 3. Will RP be cost effective? 4. Can RP be developed which will treat or prevent epilepsy while controlling seizures? Possible approaches to these questions could include: 1. The development of a data base for prospective use to monitor patients being treated at Epilepsy Centers using RP principles. 2. Use the data obtained from the above to construct more specific studies to compare identified combination therapies with monotherapy. 3. Prospectively compare in a placebo controlled, blinded study, the effect of the combination of an anti-ictal medication and a laboratory proven antiepileptic drug for prevention of the development of epilepsy in an at risk population such as head trauma or stroke.</p>","PeriodicalId":77115,"journal":{"name":"Epilepsy research. Supplement","volume":"11 ","pages":"253-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20234877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is there a mechanistic basis for rational polypharmacy?","authors":"R L Macdonald","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Established antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) decrease membrane excitability by interacting with neurotransmitter receptors or ion channels. AEDs developed prior to 1980 appear to act on sodium channels. gamma-amino butyric acid type A (GABAA) receptors (GABARs) or calcium channels. Benzodiazepines and barbiturates enhance GABAR-mediated inhibition. Phenytion, carbamazepine and possibly sodium valproate decrease high-frequency repetitive firing of action potentials by enhancing sodium channel inactivation. Ethosuximide and sodium valproate reduce a low threshold (T-type) calcium channel current. The mechanisms of action of the new AEDs are not fully established. Gabapentin binds to a high affinity site on neuronal membranes in a restricted regional distribution of the central nervous system. This binding site may be related to a possible active transport process of gabapentin into neurons; however, this has not been proven and the mechanism of action of gabapentin remains uncertain. Lamotrigine decreases sustained high-frequency repetitive firing of voltage-dependent sodium actin potentials that may result in a preferential decreased release of presynaptic glutamate. Oxcarbazepine's mechanism of action is not known; however, its similarity in structure and clinical efficacy to that of carbamazepine suggests that its mechanism of action may involve inhibition of sustained high-frequency repetitive firing of voltage-dependent sodium action potentials. Vigabatrin irreversibly inhibits GABA transaminase, the enzyme that degrades GABA, thereby producing greater available pools of presynaptic GABA for release in central synapses. Increased activity of GABA at postsynaptic receptors may underlie the clinical efficacy of vigabatrin. The potential mechanistic bases for rational polypharmacy are reviewed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77115,"journal":{"name":"Epilepsy research. Supplement","volume":"11 ","pages":"79-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20236361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}