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ArticleBrain research2011

An organotypic hippocampal slice culture model of excitotoxic injury induced spontaneous recurrent epileptiform discharges.

Julie M Ziobro, Laxmikant S Deshpande, Robert J Delorenzo

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Article in Brain research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Julie M ZiobroDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Laxmikant S Deshpande
Robert J Delorenzo
Virginia Commonwealth University · US

Funding

PARATHION EXPOSURE: MECHANISMS OF TOXICTY AND TREATMENTU01NS058213 · NINDS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI DELORENZO, ROBERT JOHN · 2006 to 2015
$5.0M
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND MORTALITY OF STATUS EPILEPTICUSR01NS051505 · NINDS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI DELORENZO, ROBERT JOHN · 2006 to 2010
$2.7M
STATUS EPILEPTICUS REORGANIZES CANNABINOID RECEPTORSR01NS052529 · NINDS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI DELORENZO, ROBERT JOHN · 2007 to 2010
$1.3M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS051505NINDS NIH HHS R01NS051505NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS052529NINDS NIH HHS R01NS052529NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS058213NINDS NIH HHS UO1NS058213
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stroke is the major cause of acquired epilepsy in the adult population. The mechanisms of ischemia-induced epileptogenesis are not completely understood, but glutamate is associated with both ischemia-induced injury and epileptogenesis. The objective of this study was to develop an in vitro model of epileptogenesis induced by glutamate injury in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures (OHSCs), as observed in stroke-induced acquired epilepsy. OHSCs were prepared from 1-week-old Sprague-Dawley rat pups. They were exposed to 3.5 mM glutamate for 35 minutes at 21 days in vitro. Field potential recordings and whole-cell current clamp electrophysiology were used to monitor the development of in vitro seizure events up to 19 days after injury. Propidium iodide uptake assays were used to examine acute cell death following injury. Glutamate exposure produced a subset of hippocampal neurons that died acutely and a larger population of injured but surviving neurons. These surviving neurons manifested spontaneous, recurrent epileptiform discharges in neural networks, characterized by paroxysmal depolarizing shifts and high frequency spiking in both field potential and intracellular recordings. This model also exhibited anticonvulsant sensitivity similar to in vivo models. Our study is the first demonstration of a chronic model of acquired epilepsy in OHSCs following a glutamate injury. This in vitro model of glutamate injury-induced epileptogenesis may help develop therapeutic strategies to prevent epileptogenesis after stroke and elucidate some of the mechanisms that underlie stroke-induced epilepsy in a more anatomically intact system.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsAnticonvulsantsCell SurvivalEpilepsyEthosuximideGlutamic AcidHippocampusNerve NetNeuronsNeurotoxinsOrgan Culture TechniquesPatch-Clamp TechniquesPhenobarbitalPhenytoinRatsAnticonvulsantsEthosuximideGlutamic AcidNeurotoxinsPhenobarbitalPhenytoin

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PMCPMC3022076
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