Objective. Studies are ongoing to find appropriate low frequency stimulation (LFS) protocol for treatment of epilepsy. The present study aimed at assessing the antiepileptogenesis effects of LFS with the same protocol applied either just before or immediately after kindling stimulations. Method. This experimental animal study was conducted on adult Wistar rats (200 ± 20 g) randomly divided into...

Rats received 45 pairings of kindling or sham stimulation in distinctive contexts before a conditioned place preference/aversion test, to determine whether the stimulation and seizures were rewarding or punishing. After more pairings, rats received kindling stimulation in each context (switch test). Ictal measures in this test included afterdischarge duration, clonus duration, latency to clonus...

Background and Objective: Regarding the prevalence of epilepsy in human society and with respect to insufficiency of usual treatments, new strategies and methods for medical treatment of epileptic patients are necessary. As NMDA receptor antagonists are the most prominent anti-epileptic drugs, in the present study, we synthesized and investigated anti-epileptic effect of a new piperidine deriva...

introduction: previous studies have been shown that low frequency stimulation (lfs) has an inhibitory effect on kindling acquisition. however, the mechanism of this effect has not been completely determined. in the present study, the effect of lfs of the perforant path on seizures induced by rapid perforant path kindling was investigated. methods: animals were kindled by electrical stimulation ...

It was determined that the studied 5-[(Z)-(4-nitrobenzylidene)]-2-(thiazol-2-ylimino)-4-thiazolidinone (Les-6222) affects cyclooxygenase pathway of arachidonic acid cascade, markers damage to neurons on models PTZ kindling. In model chronic epileptogenesis in mice (pentylenetetrazole kindling), a 4-thiazolidinone derivative showed high anticonvulsant activity, which is weaker than effect sodium...

Recent studies demonstrated that central norepinephrine (NE) plays an important suppressing role in the development of seizure in several experimental epileptic models. Transplantation of fetal NE-rich neurons in the locus ceruleus into either hippocampus or amygdalapiriform cortex can retard the development of seizures in hippocampal kindling. The present study was designed to investigate the ...

Low frequency stimulation (LFS) is a potential alternative therapy for epilepsy. However, it seems that the anticonvulsant effects of LFS depend on its target sites in the brain. Thus, the present study was designed to compare the anticonvulsant effects of LFS administered to amygdala, piriform cortex and substantia nigra on amygdala kindling acquisition. In control group, rats were kindled in ...

The objective of this study was to analyze the changes in expression and the possible functions of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in electrical kindling of the basolateral amygdala (BLA) in epileptic rats. Bipolar electrodes were implanted into the BLA of Sprague-Dawley rats, and the rats were then subjected to chronic electrical stimulation through the electrodes to induce kindling. The seizure characte...