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ArticleJournal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea)2017

Neuroprotective Effect of Lacosamide on Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury in Neonatal Rats.

Gun Ha Kim, Jung Hye Byeon, Baik Lin Eun

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Article in Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Treatment considerations for the management of neonatal onset seizures.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2025
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  7. Novel Therapeutics for Neonatal Seizures.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2021
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  9. Status Epilepticus in the Neonate: Updates in Treatment Strategies.Current treatment options in neurology · 2019
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gun Ha KimDepartment of Pediatrics, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Jung Hye ByeonDepartment of Pediatrics, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Baik Lin EunDepartment of Pediatrics, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. bleun@korea.ac.kr.
Korea University · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background and purposeLacosamide (LCM) is an antiepileptic drug that enhances the slow inactivation of sodium channels and modulates collapsin response mediator protein-2. LCM was recently demonstrated to exert a neuroprotective effect in a murine model of traumatic brain injury and status epilepticus. Assuming the same underlying excitotoxicity-related brain injury mechanism, we hypothesized that LCM would have a neuroprotective effect in hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.

methodsWe divided rats into three groups at each testing session: pre- or postfed with LCM, fed with normal saline, and sham. A hypoxic-ischemic brain injury was induced by subjecting 7-day-old rats to right carotid artery coagulation followed by 2.5 h of exposure to 8% oxygen. The animals were killed on postnatal day 12 to evaluate the severity of brain damage. Open field testing was also performed between week 2 and week 6, and the Morris water maze test was performed in week 7 after hypoxia-ischemia.

resultsThe incidence of liquefactive cerebral infarction was lower in rats prefed with LCM at 100 mg/kg/dose, with the mortality rate being higher at higher doses (200 and 300 mg/kg/dose). The infarct areas were smaller in LCM-prefed rats in several brain regions including the hemisphere, hippocampus, cortex, and striatum. Spatial learning and memory function were better in LCM-prefed rats (p<0.05). No effect was observed in postfed rats.

conclusionsThis study suggests that LCM pretreatment exerts a neuroprotective effect on hypoxia-ischemia in neonatal rats. The obtained results suggest that LCM pretreatment could be used as an effective neuroprotective method for neonates under hypoxic-ischemic conditions including heart surgery.

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PMCPMC5392455
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