Impact of injury location and severity on posttraumatic epilepsy in the rat: role of frontal neocortex
| Autor: | Jeffrey G. Ojemann, John W. Miller, Jason S. Fender, Raimondo D'Ambrosio, Giulia Curia, Michael R. Levitt |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Cognitive Neuroscience Neocortex Electroencephalography Epileptogenesis Severity of Illness Index Rats Sprague-Dawley Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Epilepsy Internal medicine Severity of illness medicine Animals Craniocerebral Trauma Electrocorticography medicine.diagnostic_test Head injury Articles medicine.disease Epilepsy Post-Traumatic Rats medicine.anatomical_structure Endophenotype Anesthesia Cardiology Post-Traumatic Sprague-Dawley Psychology |
| Popis: | Human posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE) is highly heterogeneous, ranging from mild remitting to progressive disabling forms. PTE results in simple partial, complex partial, and secondarily generalized seizures with a wide spectrum of durations and semiologies. PTE variability is thought to depend on the heterogeneity of head injury and patient's age, gender, and genetic background. To better understand the role of these factors, we investigated the seizures resulting from calibrated fluid percussion injury (FPI) to adolescent male Sprague–Dawley rats with video electrocorticography. We show that PTE incidence and the frequency and severity of chronic seizures depend on the location and severity of FPI. The frontal neocortex was more prone to epileptogenesis than the parietal and occipital, generating earlier, longer, and more frequent partial seizures. A prominent limbic focus developed in most animals, regardless of parameters of injury. Remarkably, even with carefully controlled injury parameters, including type, severity, and location, the duration of posttraumatic apnea and the age and gender of outbred rats, there was great subject-to-subject variability in frequency, duration, and rate of progression of seizures, indicating that other factors, likely the subjects' genetic background and physiological states, have critical roles in determining the characteristics of PTE. |
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