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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2026

STAT3 signaling is associated with neuroimmune dysregulation in a Dravet syndrome model and pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy.

Qi Zhang, Ji-Chen Wang, Hai-Qing Zhao, Jia Wang, Bing-Jie Xu, Li-Ping Zou

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Qi Zhang *Senior Department of Pediatric Medicine, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Ji-Chen Wang *Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China.
Hai-Qing ZhaoSenior Department of Pediatric Medicine, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Jia WangSenior Department of Pediatric Medicine, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Bing-Jie XuSenior Department of Pediatric Medicine, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Li-Ping ZouSenior Department of Pediatric Medicine, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.

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Background: Dravet syndrome (DS) is a severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, mainly caused by Methods: We conducted a multi-level integrative analysis combining transcriptomic mining of the GEO database to identify the Results: Transcriptomic profiling of Conclusion: This study identifies systemic and neuroinflammatory changes in DS associated with increased STAT3 signaling and this inflammatory signature is also observed in the broader pediatric DRE population. By bridging verified molecular mechanisms with real-world clinical data from our pediatric cohort, we suggest peripheral indices (NLR, SII, CRP) that may serve as accessible clinical indicators of disease severity in pediatric DRE. Pending functional validation, these findings identify STAT3 as a pathway of interest and a potential therapeutic candidate, supporting the development of adjunctive anti-inflammatory therapies targeting neuroimmune cascades for DS and broader refractory epilepsies.

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Dravet syndromedrug-resistant epilepsyimmune dysregulationinflammationneuroinflammationSTAT3 signaling

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