Effects of chronic naloxone pretreatment on amygdaloid kindling in rats
| Autor: | Robert F. Ackermann, Luisa Rocha, Jerome Engel |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_treatment
Stimulation (+)-Naloxone Pharmacology Epilepsy Seizures Kindling Neurologic medicine Animals Opioid peptide Naloxone Narcotic antagonist Kindling business.industry Electroencephalography Rats Inbred Strains Amygdala medicine.disease Electric Stimulation Rats Anticonvulsant Neurology Opioid Neurology (clinical) business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Epilepsy Research. 10:103-110 |
| ISSN: | 0920-1211 |
| Popis: | Effects of chronic naloxone pretreatment (75 or 270, μg/h for 14 days) on the development of amygdaloid kindling in rats were evaluated. The acquisition of seizure activity was modified in the naloxone pretreated animals, depending on the nucleus stimulated: facilitation of stages IV and V occurred in 37%, variability of electrographic and behavioral responses to electrical stimulation during the kindling development in 33%, and facilitation of stages IV and V followed by long periods of seizure suppression in 29%. Enhancement of postictal seizure suppession during a recycling paradigm was observed in all the naloxone pretreated rats. It was concluded that the chronic administration of naloxone (known to induce opioid binding upregulation and supersensitivity), in association with the enduring changes in opioid mechanisms provoked by kindled seizures, were responsible for the facilitation and suppression of epileptic activity. These findings support bidirectional modulatory effects of opioid peptides on epileptic seizures as well as the view that epileptic seizures can induce enduring alterations in opioid mechanisms. |
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