Anticonvulsant effect of polyunsaturated fatty acids in rats, using the cortical stimulation model

European Journal of Pharmacology
R A VoskuylA Leaf

Abstract

Recent studies have shown that long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids can prevent cardiac arrhythmias, attributed to the reduction in excitability of cardiomyocytes, owing mainly to a shift in hyperpolarizing direction of the inactivation curves of both Na+ and Ca2+ currents and to a slowed recovery from inactivation. Qualitatively similar effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids on inactivation parameters have been observed in freshly isolated hippocampal neurons. Since the same effects are presumed to underlie the action of some established anticonvulsant drugs, polyunsaturated fatty acids might have an anticonvulsant action as well. We have investigated this for eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid, linoleic acid and oleic acid, employing cortical stimulation in rats, a seizure model allowing the determination of the full anticonvulsant effect-time profile in freely moving, individual animals. I.v. infusion of 40 micromol of eicosapentaenoic acid or docosahexaenoic acid over a period of 30 min, modestly increased the threshold for localized seizure activity after 6 h by 73 +/- 13 microA (mean +/- S.E.M.; n = 7) and 77 +/- 17 microA (n = 7), respectively, and the threshold for generalized seizure activity by 125 +/- 20 a...Continue Reading

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