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    ANATOMICAL AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF AN ANIMAL MODEL OF TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY WITH CLASSIC HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS

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    Norwood, Braxton
    Issue Date
    2009
    Advisor
    Sloviter, Robert S
    
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    In mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, seizures often arise from an atrophic hippocampus exhibiting a characteristic pattern of hippocampal neuron loss called "classic hippocampal sclerosis." No single injury has reproduced this extensive neuron loss experimentally, suggesting that hippocampal sclerosis may be an "endstage" pathology caused by an initial insult plus years of spontaneous seizures. We developed an experimental paradigm to test the alternate hypothesis that the extensive hippocampal pathology and limited extrahippocampal pathology typically seen in patients is caused by a single prolonged episode of hippocampal excitation insufficiently intense to cause convulsive status epilepticus (SE). Two daily 30 minute-long episodes of perforant pathway stimulation in awake Sprague-Dawley rats increased granule cell paired-pulse inhibition and truncated epileptiform discharges evoked during 8 hours of subsequent stimulation, thus avoiding the lethal SE that identical stimulation evoked in naive animals. Similarly, 8 hours of less intense stimulation in Long-Evans rats, which are relatively resistant to developing convulsive SE, produced hippocampal seizure discharges, but not convulsive SE. Both paradigms produced classic hippocampal sclerosis and limited extrahippocampal pathology without any clinical indication during stimulation that an injury was being inflicted. Spontaneous hippocampal-onset seizures began ~3 weeks post-injury, before the development of hippocampal atrophy, demonstrated by sequential magnetic resonance imaging. These results indicate that classic hippocampal sclerosis is produced immediately by a single episode of clinically "cryptic" temporal lobe excitation of a particular intensity and duration. Epileptogenic injuries may involve focal excitatory disturbances of hippocampal function that frequently go undetected at the time of initial injury.
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    doctoral
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    Medical Pharmacology
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    University of Arizona
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