Chemical-genetic attenuation of focal neocortical seizures.
Chemical-genetic attenuation of focal neocortical seizures.
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DOI:
10.1038/ncomms4847
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发表时间:
2014-05-27
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Kullmann, Dimitri M.
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Kaetzel, Dennis;Nicholson, Elizabeth;Schorge, Stephanie;Walker, Matthew C.;Kullmann, Dimitri M.
Focal epilepsy is commonly pharmacoresistant, and resective surgery is often contraindicated by proximity to eloquent cortex. Many patients have no effective treatment options. Gene therapy allows cell-type specific inhibition of neuronal excitability, but on-demand seizure suppression has only been achieved with optogenetics, which requires invasive light delivery. Here we test a combined chemical–genetic approach to achieve localized suppression of neuronal excitability in a seizure focus, using viral expression of the modified muscarinic receptor hM4Di. hM4Di has no effect in the absence of its selective, normally inactive and orally bioavailable agonist clozapine-N-oxide (CNO). Systemic administration of CNO suppresses focal seizures evoked by two different chemoconvulsants, pilocarpine and picrotoxin. CNO also has a robust anti-seizure effect in a chronic model of focal neocortical epilepsy. Chemical–genetic seizure attenuation holds promise as a novel approach to treat intractable focal epilepsy while minimizing disruption of normal circuit function in untransduced brain regions or in the absence of the specific ligand. Focal epilepsy is difficult to treat with currently available drugs or surgical approaches. Kätzel et al. express mutant inhibitory receptors in the brains of rats with focal epilepsy and selectively activate these receptors by an exogenous compound, which results in region- and time-specific suppression of focal seizures
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0700293104
发表时间:
2007-03-20
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
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通讯作者:
Kullmann DM
影响因子:
16.6
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