Epilepsy affects 1% of the global population, with around 2.4 million new diagnoses annually. Approximately 80% individuals epilepsy reside in low- and middle-income countries, a prevalence 8.2 per 1000 sub-Saharan Africa 8 Nigeria. This study evaluated anticonvulsant properties methanol leaf extract Opilia celtidifolia (MEC) mice chicks. The median lethal dose (LD50) was determined acute MEC w...

Seizures in adult rats result in long-term deficits in learning and memory, as well as an enhanced susceptibility to further seizures. In contrast, fewer lasting changes have been found following seizures in rats younger than 20 days old. This age-dependency could be due to differing amounts of hippocampal neuronal damage produced by seizures at different ages. To determine if there is an early...

The hyperexcitability accompanying chronic epileptiform activity may result from long-term alterations of ligand- and voltage-gated channels. Previous studies have indicated that NMDA responses and other electrophysiological characteristics of dentate gyrus granule cells are profoundly altered following chronic epilepsy (kindling). We have now investigated channels activated by NMDA using whole...

1. Intracellular current-clamp recordings were obtained from neurons of the basolateral amygdala (BLA) in an in vitro slice preparation from control and kindled animals. Postsynaptic potentials, elicited by stimulation of the stria terminalis (ST) or lateral amygdaloid nucleus (LA), were used to investigate the role of excitatory and inhibitory amino acid transmission in kindling-induced epilep...

Epilepsy as well as chronic use of most antiepileptic drugs, particularly in children, predisposes to cognitive impairment. The brain is considered abnormally sensitive to oxidative stress and damage which observed during seizure activity. Omega-3 (OM3) fatty acids are known antioxidants that play a role in nervous system activity, cognitive development, memory-related learning, and synaptic tr...

Recent studies have revealed that mossy fiber axons of granule cells in the dentate gyrus undergo reorganization of their terminal projections in both animal models of epilepsy and human epilepsy. This synaptic reorganization has been demonstrated by the Timm method, a histochemical technique that selectively labels synaptic terminals of mossy fibers because of their high zinc content. It has b...

Background: 4-Hydroxybenzyl alcohol (4-HBA), one of the major active phenolic constituents of Gastrodia elata Blume, has been shown to be a neuroprotective agent. Previous studies have demonstrated the anticonvulsive effect of Gastrodia elata, while no studies have investigated the antiepileptogenic effect of 4-HBA. Methods: We examined the effect of 4-HBA (25 mg/kg, 50 mg/kg or 100 mg/kg i.p.)...