Arzu Temizyürek, Canan Uğur Yılmaz, Serkan Emik, Uğur Akcan, Müge Atış, Nurcan Orhan, Nadir Arıcan, Bulent Ahishali, Erdem Tüzün, Mutlu Küçük, Candan Gürses, Mehmet Kaya
OBJECTIVE: Most currently available antiepileptics are not fully effective in the prevention of seizures in absence epilepsy owing to the presence of blood-brain barrier (BBB). We aimed to test whether binding an antiepileptic drug, lacosamide (LCM), to glucose-coated gold nanoparticles (GNPs) enables efficient brain drug delivery to suppress the epileptic activity in WAG/Rij rats with absence epilepsy. METHODS: In these animals, intracranial-EEG recording, behavioral test, in vivo imaging of LCM and LCM-GNP conjugate distribution in the brain, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry analysis, immunofluorescence staining of glucose transporter (Glut)- 1, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and p-glycoprotein (P-gp) and electron microscopy were performed...
August 2022: Epilepsy Research