Region- and pattern-specific effects of glutamate uptake blockers on epileptiform activity in rat brain slices

Epilepsy Research
A BertscheA Draguhn

Abstract

Many epileptic syndromes develop into pharmaco-resistant forms, calling for the development of new anticonvulsant strategies. The transmitter glutamate serves a double role as excitatory transmitter and as precursor for GABA, thus interfering with glutamate uptake may therefore exert complex effects on excitation-inhibition-balance in epileptic networks. In the present study we tested the effect of two different glutamate uptake blockers on acutely induced epileptiform activity in hippocampal-entorhinal cortex slices from adult rats: dihydrokainate (DHK) which blocks predominantly glial glutamate uptake, and threo-beta-benzyloxyaspartic acid (TBOA) which blocks both glial and neuronal glutamate uptake. Three different models were used to induce epileptiform discharges: (i) increasing NMDA receptor-mediated excitation by omitting Mg(2+)-ions; (ii) blocking potassium channels by 4-aminopyridine; (iii) reducing GABA(A) receptor-mediated inhibition by penicillin. Application of DHK or TBOA markedly reduced the frequency of epileptiform discharges in CA1 in the low magnesium and the 4-AP model while pathological activity was increased in the penicillin-model. In contrast, frequency of epileptiform discharges in EC was consistently i...Continue Reading

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