Effect of carbamazepine on spontaneous recurrent seizures recorded from the dentate gyrus in rats with kainate-induced epilepsy

Epilepsia
Heidi L Grabenstatter, F Edward Dudek

Abstract

Animal models of chronic epilepsy with spontaneous recurrent seizures (SRSs) may be useful in the discovery and mechanistic analyses of antiseizure drugs (ASDs). Carbamazepine (CBZ), a widely used ASD with a well-defined mechanism, was analyzed in this proof-of-principle study to determine how a traditional ASD affects the properties of SRSs. The effects of CBZ on electrographic SRSs recorded from the dentate gyrus were studied in freely behaving rats using a repeated, low-dose kainate model of acquired epilepsy with a repeated-measures, crossover protocol. Almost all seizure durations were >20 seconds. Both seizure likelihood and duration appeared to be similar between 1 and 8 hours after individual CBZ injections. CBZ-induced decreases in seizure frequency were not significant at 10 mg/kg; however, at 30 mg/kg, seizure frequency was significantly reduced for convulsive but not nonconvulsive seizures. At 100 mg/kg, CBZ strongly suppressed both convulsive and nonconvulsive seizures. Although CBZ had a dose-dependent effect on seizure frequency, CBZ did not affect seizure duration at any dose. The preceding interictal interval did not affect seizure duration; however, at 30 mg/kg CBZ, nearly all seizures were nonconvulsive when ...Continue Reading

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Apr 22, 2021·Seizure : the Journal of the British Epilepsy Association·Christian Lizette Frías-SoriaLuisa Rocha

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