Intra-amygdala all-trans retinoic acid inhibits amygdala-kindled seizures in rats

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 75, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 97-103

  Sayyah, Mohammad ^a   Rezaie, Mohsen ^a,b   Haghighi, Saeid ^a   Amanzadeh, Amir ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

All trans retinoic acid; Basolateral amygdala; Gap junctions; Kindling

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; RETINOIC ACID; TRIMETHYLAMINE;

AFTERDISCHARGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GAP JUNCTION; HISTOLOGY; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CARBENOXOLONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; METHYLAMINES; MICROINJECTIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TRETINOIN;

EID: 34447259100     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2007.04.010     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Brümmer F., Zempel G., Bühle P., Stein J., and Hülser D.F. Retinoic acid modulates gap junctional permeability: a comparative study of spreading and ionic coupling in cultured cells. Exp. Cell Res. 196 (1991) 158-163
2. Carlen P.L., Skinner F., Zhang L., Naus C., Kushnir M., and Perez Velazquez J.L. The role of gap junction in seizures. Brain Res. Rev. 32 (2000) 235-241
3. Carson F.L. Histotechnology: a self-instruction text. Am. Soc. Clin. Pathol. (1990) 170-171
4. Chiang M.Y., Misner D., Kempermann G., Schikorski T., Giguere V., Sucov H.M., Gage F.H., Stevens C.F., and Evans R.M. An essential role for retinoid receptors RARβ and RZRY in long-term potentiation and depression. Neuron 21 (1998) 1353-1361
5. Etchamendy N., Enderlin V., Marighetto A., Pallet V., Higueret P., and Jaffard R. Vitamin A deficiency and relational memory deficit in adult mice: relationships with changes in brain retinoid signaling. Behav. Brain Res. 145 (2003) 37-49
6. 2 signaling in the nucleus. Brain Res. Rev. 45 (2004) 179-195
7. Gajda Z., Gyengesi E., Hermesz E., Said Ali K., and Szente M. Involvement of gap junctions in the manifestation and control of the duration of seizures in rats in vivo. Epilepsia 44 (2003) 1596-1600
8. Gajda Z., Hermesz E., Gyengesi E., Szupera Z., and Szente M. The functional significance of gap junction channels in the epileptogenicity and seizure susceptibility of juvenile rats. Epilepsia 47 (2006) 1009-1022
9. Jahromi S.S., Wentlandt K., Piran S., and Carlen P.L. Anticonvulsant actions of gap junctional blockers in an in vitro seizure model. Neurophysiology 88 (2002) 1893-1902
10. Malik M.A., Blusztajn J.K., and Greenwood C.E. Nutrients as trophic factors in neurons and the central nervous systems: role of retinoic acid. J. Nutr. Biochem. 11 (2000) 2-13
11. McNamara J.O., Byrne M.C., Dasheiff R.M., and Fitz J.G. The kindling model of epilepsy: a review. Prog. Neurobiol. 15 (1980) 139-159
12. Misner D.L., Jacobs S., Shimizu Y., de Urquiza A.M., Solomin L., Perlmann T., De Luca L.M., Stevens C.F., and Evans R.M. Vitamin A deprivation results in reversible loss of hippocampal long term synaptic plasticity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 (2001) 11714-11719
13. Muller J.F., Mascagni F., and McDonald A.J. Coupled networks of Parvalbumin-immunoreactive interneurons in the rat basolateral amygdala. J. Neurosci. 25 (2005) 7366-7376
14. Paxinos G., and Watson C. The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates (2005), Elsevier Academic Press, New York
15. Perez Velazquez J.L., and Carlen P.L. Gap junctions, synchrony and seizures. Trends Neurosci. 23 (2000) 68-74
16. Pottek M., and Weiler R. Light-adaptive effects of retinoic acid on receptive field properties of retinal horizontal cells. Eur. J. Neurosci. 12 (2000) 437-445
17. Racine R.J. Modification of seizure activity by electrical stimulation. II. Motor seizure. Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol. 32 (1972) 281-294
18. Sayyah M., Beheshti S., Shokrgozar M.A., Eslami-far A., Deljoo Z., Khabiri A.R., and Haeri Rohani A. Antiepileptogenic and anticonvulsant activity of interleukin-1β in amygdala-kindled rats. Exp. Neurol. 191 (2005) 145-153
19. Sayyah M., Yousefi-Pour M., and Narenjkar J. Anti-epileptogenic effect of β-carotene and vitamin A in pentylenetetrazole-kindling model of epilepsy in mice. Epilepsy Res. 63 (2005) 11-16
20. Sohl G., Maxeiner S., and Willecke K. Expression and functions of neuronal gap junctions. Nat. Rev. 6 (2005) 191-200
21. Weiler R., Schultz K., Pottek M., Tieding S., and Janssen-Bienhold U. Retinoic acid has light-adaptive effects on horizontal cells in the retina. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 (1998) 7139-7144
22. Zhang D., and McMahon D.G. Direct gating by retinoic acid of retinal electrical synapses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (2000) 14754-14759
23. Zhang X., Ren Z., Zuo J., Su C., Wang R., Chang Y., and Fang F. The effect of all-trans retinoic acid on gap junctional intercellular communication and connexin 43 gene expression in glioma cells. Chin. Med. Sci. J. 17 (2002) 22-26