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- W3095944557 abstract "Abstract Focal cortical epilepsies are frequently refractory to available anticonvulsant drug therapies. One key factor contributing to this state is the limited availability of animal models that allow to reliably study focal cortical seizures and how they recruit surrounding brain areas in-vivo . In this study, we selectively expressed the inhibitory chemogenetic receptor, hM4D, in GABAergic neurons in focal cortical areas using viral gene transfer. Following focal silencing of GABAergic neurons by administration of Clozapine-N-Oxide (CNO), we demonstrated reliable induction of local epileptiform events in the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal of awake freely moving mice. Experiments in anesthetized mice showed consistent induction of focal seizures in two different brain regions – the barrel cortex (BC) and at the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Seizures were accompanied by high frequency oscillations, a known characteristic of human focal seizures. Seizures propagated, but an analysis of seizure propagation revealed favored propagation pathways. CNO-induced epileptiform events propagated from the BC on one hemisphere to its counterpart and from the BC to the mPFC, but not vice-versa. Lastly, post-CNO epileptiform events in the BC could be triggered by sensory whisker-pad stimulation, indicating that this model, applied to sensory cortices, may be useful to study sensory-evoked seizures. Taken together, our results show that targeted chemogenetic inhibition of GABAergic neurons using hM4D can serve as a novel, versatile and reliable model of focal cortical epilepsy suitable to systematically study cortical ictogenesis in different cortical areas. Significance Statement Focal cortical epilepsies are often hard to alleviate using current anticonvulsant therapies while further drug discovery is impeded by the limited variety of suitable animal models. In this study, we established a novel model of focal cortical seizures induced by spatially-restricted chemogenetic silencing of cortical inhibitory neurons. We have shown this method to be effective at various cortical regions and reliably induce seizures that share key characteristics with known human epilepsy traits, including sensory triggering and seizure propagation. This model may thus be used to advance the discovery of new remedies for focal cortical epilepsies, as well as to improve our understanding of seizure spread along different cortical pathways." @default.
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