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ArticleEpilepsy currents

Seizures beget seizures in temporal lobe epilepsies: the boomerang effects of newly formed aberrant kainatergic synapses.

Yehezkel Ben-Ari, Valérie Crepel, Alfonso Represa

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Article in Epilepsy currents. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yehezkel Ben-AriInstitute of Neurobiology of the Mediterranean Sea (INMED), Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Parc scientifique de Luminy, BP13 13273, Marseille, Cedex 09 France. ben-ari@inmed.univ-mrs.fr
Valérie Crepel
Alfonso Represa
Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée · FRInserm · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Do temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) seizures in adults promote further seizures? Clinical and experimental data suggest that new synapses are formed after an initial episode of status epilepticus, however their contribution to the transformation of a naive network to an epileptogenic one has been debated. Recent experimental data show that newly formed aberrant excitatory synapses on the granule cells of the fascia dentate operate by means of kainate receptor-operated signals that are not present on naive granule cells. Therefore, genuine epileptic networks rely on signaling cascades that differentiate them from naive networks. Recurrent limbic seizures generated by the activation of kainate receptors and synapses in naive animals lead to the formation of novel synapses that facilitate the emergence of further seizures. This negative, vicious cycle illustrates the central role of reactive plasticity in neurological disorders.

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PMID18488058
PMCPMC2384153
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