A research team based at the University of California, San Diego presented data from a study that evaluated the novel cyclophilin D (CypD) inhibitor CC-2055 in preclinical models of epilepsy.
As Wall Street waits to find out later this year whether Stoke Therapeutics Inc.’s positive results with a low, single dose of STK-001 for Dravet syndrome pans out in more extensive research, a number of players large and small are investigating candidates for the rare but dismal form of epilepsy.
Emory University and Medical College of Wisconsin have presented quinazolinone derivatives acting as NADPH oxidase (NOX) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of traumatic brain injury and epilepsy.
By pairing the expression of an inhibitory ion channel with an activity-dependent promoter, researchers have developed the first on-demand gene therapy that specifically silenced hyperactive cells and prevented epileptic seizures.
By pairing the expression of an inhibitory ion channel with an activity-dependent promoter, researchers have developed the first on-demand gene therapy that specifically silenced hyperactive cells and prevented epileptic seizures. The channels are expressed when the promoter is turned on by excessive neuronal activity, and so “we can’t stop the first seizures,” Dimitri Kullmann told BioWorld.
By pairing the expression of an inhibitory ion channel with an activity-dependent promoter, researchers have developed the first on-demand gene therapy that specifically silenced hyperactive cells and prevented epileptic seizures.
“Epilepsy is really a classical neurological disorder,” Lars Pinborg told the audience at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) annual conference on Sunday. “Or is it?” Pinborg, of Rigshospitalet's The Neuroscience Center in Denmark, was chairing a session dedicated to an alternative hypothesis, summed up in the session title: “Is epilepsy a psychiatric disorder?”
