Brain glial cells - a new target for future epilepsy treatment?
Senior consultant and Head of translational epilepsy research within the Epilepsy Research Group of Oslo (ERGO), Kjell Heuser, recently pointed to the glial cells as a possible new target for epilepsy treatment in a reader's letter to the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. This was also commented on by the Norwegian Brain Council. The authors behind the post are besides Kjell Heuser (pictured), Rune Enger, Toni Berger and Erik Taubøll.
Karadag N, Hagen E, Shadrin AA, van der Meer D, O'Connell KS, Rahman Z, Kutrolli G, Parker N, Bahrami S, Fominykh V, Heuser K, Taubøll E, Ueland T, Steen NE, Djurovic S, Dale AM, Frei O, Andreassen OA, Smeland OB(2024) Unraveling the shared genetics of common epilepsies and general cognitive ability medRxiv DOI 10.1101/2024.03.25.24304773, PubMed 38585944
Heuser K, Horn M, Samsonsen C, Ulvin LB, Olsen KB, Power KN, Veiby G, Molteberg E, Engelsen B, Taubøll E(2024) Treating status epilepticus in adults Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 144(4) DOI 10.4045/tidsskr.23.0782, PubMed 38506004
Enger R, Heuser K(2024) Astrocytes as critical players of the fine balance between inhibition and excitation in the brain: spreading depolarization as a mechanism to curb epileptic activity Front Netw Physiol, 4, 1360297 DOI 10.3389/fnetp.2024.1360297, PubMed 38405021