Substantial outcome improvement using a refined pilocarpine mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy
Neurobiology of Disease(2021)
摘要
Systemic pilocarpine treatment is one of the most reliable means of inducing temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). However, the traditional pilocarpine injection protocol using mice was associated with a high death rate, possibly because of cardiorespiratory collapse following status epilepticus (SE). To prevent this, we developed a modified procedure of pilocarpine SE induction, which included a single injection of a moderate dose of caffeine during the induction phase. That new protocol was based on the use of young male mice as well as on a refined Racine's scale. Using that protocol, we report a substantially increased survival rate, thus enabling the generation of a large cohort of mice that exhibited cardinal histological (e.g., mossy fiber sprouting) and electrophysiological (e.g., chronic interictal events and ictal seizures) characteristics associated with TLE. In conclusion, our refined caffeine- and pilocarpine-based protocol substantially improves the outcome of the reliable pilocarpine mouse model of TLE.
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Pilocarpine,Caffeine,Epilepsy,Mice
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