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Noorolhoda Fotovat Eskandari, Gelareh Vahabzadeh, Fereshteh Golab, Fariba Karimzadeh, Parvaneh Rahimi-Moghadam, Somayyeh Nasiripour, Robabeh Shabani, Volume 5, Issue 1 (Winter - 2017)
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Introduction: Excessive activation of NMDA receptors in ischemic injury as well as reduction of GABAergic system leads to discrepancies of ionic homeostasis and neuronal death. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of different concentrations of stiripentol (0.01, 0.1, 1, 5, 10, 30 µM) as a GABAA receptor agonist on primary cortical culture of mice on 4 h oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD). Materials and Methods: After 24h of incubation of neuronal cells with stiripentol, the cells were transferred to glucose-free DMEM (Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium) and were exposed to 4h hypoxia in a small anaerobic chamber and incubated in standard condition for 24h. Cell viability was evaluated by MTT assay. Results: The results showed that different concentrations of stiripentol could increase the cell viability after 4h OGD Recovery (OGD/R). However, the protective effect of stiripentol was lower than the control group (the cells did not expose to OGD/R). Conclusion: Our results indicated that stiripentol could be a potential drug for treatment of brain ischemic condition. However, additional studies are needed to evaluate the mechanims of strripentol effect.
Maryam Parvaneh, Farshad Hashemian, Volume 6, Issue 2 (The Spring Supplement of Shefaye Khatam 1 - 2018)
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is multisystem and multifactor disease with a long no-symptom stage. We propose that a more effective approach to use fMRI as a still emerging, repeatable, non- invasive neuroimaging tools that can be very useful for evaluating, diagnosis, treatment and drugs- development. We studied 30 articles which published between 2008-2017 that included the effects of different biomarkers and tools for diagnosing AD and assessing, improving and detection of Alzheimer's medications. Attractive alternatives to the animal and human experimental modelling approaches are the “multi-scale”, “multi-level” computational modeling approaches to AD drug discovery and therapy. 6 articles were about the animal models while we should try accepting the limitations of animal models and focus more on humanize research. Peer-reviewed publications were identified through search in PubMed, Google scholar and SCI-HUB by using the search terms "fMRI", "Alzheimer", "cognitive side effects", "drug", "pharmacological neuroimaging". The search was limited to articles published in English. Relevant articles were chosen based on clinical experience and the expertise of the authors. FMRI measures hold promise for multiple clinical applications. Generally, models especially pharmacological fMRI showed that drug repositioning is a cost-effective way to develop disease-modifying treatments over shorter timescale and future models should provide a theory of how increasing Ach levels using cholinesterase inhibitors and N-methyl-d-aspartate antagonists (NMDA) impact neural and behavioral processes in AD. Models should also investigate how memantine (NMDA antagonists) can reduce toxicity of beta-amyloids as reported in experimental studies.
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