Possible mechanism of cellular acidification in epilepsy termination / 国际药学研究杂志

ABSTRACT

Epilepsy,especially the status epilepticus(SE),is a kind of common disease which is seriously dangerous for peo-ple′s health. At present,many researchers are focusing on how the epilepsy seizures happen and maintain,but know little about how it stops. It was found that appropriate cell acidification played an important role in patients to slow down or inhibit epilepsy-like seizures in the early 20th century. Recently,more and more researches have confirmed that cell acidification can induce the termination of epi-leptic seizure caused by disbalance of inhibitory and excitatory transmitters of nerve,opening of acid-sensing ion channels and so on. Therefore,these will likely become the new direction to explore new drugs or methods for epileptic treatment in the future.