Project description:Analysis of the dentate gyrus of amygdala electrical stimulation model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Results provide insight into the molecular mechanism underlying epileptogenesis. This study was designed to estimate changes in gene expression levels after 7 and 30 days after electrical stimulation of amygdala as a model of temporal lobe epilepsy. The advantage of this study is time matched control (sham operated animals sacrificed at the same age as stimulated animals).
Project description:Analysis of the dentate gyrus of amygdala electrical stimulation model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Results provide insight into the molecular mechanism underlying epileptogenesis. This study was designed to estimate changes in miRNA expression levels after 7, 14, 30 and 90 days after electrical stimulation of amygdala as a model of temporal lobe epilepsy. The advantage of this study is time matched control (sham operated animals sacrificed at the same age as stimulated animals).
Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been found to participate in the pathogenesis of several neurological diseases including epilepsy. To date, the expression and functions of miRNAs in chronic temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), the most common type of refractory epilepsy in adults, have not been well characterized. Here, we adopted high-throughput sequencing to investigate miRNA expression profile in a chronic TLE model induced by amygdala stimulation
Project description:Analysis of the dentate gyrus of amygdala electrical stimulation model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Results provide insight into the molecular mechanism underlying epileptogenesis.
Project description:Analysis of the dentate gyrus of amygdala electrical stimulation model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Results provide insight into the molecular mechanism underlying epileptogenesis.
Project description:Analysis of biopsy hippocampal tissue of patients with pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) undergoing neurosurgical removal of the epileptogenic focus for seizure control. Chronic TLE goes along with focal hyperexcitability. Results provide insight into molecular mechanisms that may play a role in seizure propensity 150 human hippocampus samples
Project description:Label-free Proteomic profile of the dentate gyrus (dorsal and ventral) and CA3 (dorsal and ventral) microdissected from the hippocampus of the pilocarpine model of Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
Project description:Temporal lobe epilepsy is one of the most common refractory epilepsies in the world. Epilepsy progression is controlled through the expression of epilepsy permissive genes, ultimately resulting in a hyperexcitable network and spontaneous seizures. DNA methylation has been explored as a potential epigenetic regulatory mechanism of gene expression in epilepsy, however, the role of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) has been underexplored to date. 5-hmC is a stable epigenetic mark most abundantly expressed in the brain. In this study, we show that 5-hmC but not 5-methylcytosine (5-mC) is lost in temporal lobe epilepsy. Using 5-hmC meDIP-sequencing, we characterized epileptic 5-hmC distribution in the rat kainic acid model of temporal lobe epilepsy. We identified the correlation of 5-hmC loss and gain with epilepsy-associated gene ontology pathways and implicate the potential involvement of multiple cell types with 5-hmC regulation of temporal lobe epilepsy. Overall, we show that 5-hmC has the potential to be a crucial regulator of epilepsy and epileptic gene expression and are the first to characterize the genomic distribution of 5-hmC in a model of epilepsy.