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Dual orexin antagonist normalized sleep homeostatic drive, enhanced GABAergic inhibition, and suppressed seizures after traumatic brain injury.
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- Sleep, inflammation, and hemodynamics in rodent models of traumatic brain injury.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Affects Orexin/Hypocretin Physiology Differently in Male and Female Mice.Journal of neurotrauma · 2023Article
- Subthalamic nucleus stimulation attenuates motor seizures via modulating the nigral orexin pathway.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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objectivesTraumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE) and sleep disturbances. We hypothesized that treatment with sleep aids after TBI can ameliorate PTE.
methodsCD-1 mice underwent controlled cortical impact (CCI), sham injury, or no craniotomy. Sham and CCI groups underwent a monthlong daily treatment with sleep aids including a dual orexin antagonist (DORA-22) or THIP (gaboxadol) or a respective vehicle starting on the day of CCI. We performed continuous EEG (electroencephalography) recordings at week 1 and months 1, 2, and 3 for ~1 week each time. Seizure analysis occurred at all-time points and sleep analysis occurred in week 1 and month-1/2 in all groups. Subsets of CCI and sham groups were subjected to voltageclamp experiments in hippocampal slices to evaluate GABAergic synaptic inhibition.
resultsDORA-22 treatment suppressed seizures in month 1-3 recordings. TBI reduced the amplitude and frequency of miniature inhibitory synaptic currents (mIPSCs) in dentate granule cells and these changes were rescued by DORA-22 treatment. Sleep analysis showed that DORA-22 increased nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep during lights-off whereas THIP increased REM sleep during lights-on in week 1. Both treatments displayed subtle changes in time spent in NREM or REM at month-1/2 as well. TBI not only increased normalized EEG delta power (NΔ) at week-1 and month-1 but also resulted in the loss of the homeostatic diurnal oscillation of NΔ, which was restored by DORA-22 but not THIP treatment.
conclusionsDual orexin antagonists may have a therapeutic potential in suppressing PTE potentially by enhancing GABAergic inhibition and impacting sleep homeostatic drive.
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