mTOR and neuroinflammation in epilepsy: implications for disease progression and treatment

T Ravizza, M Scheper, R Di Sapia, J Gorter… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Epilepsy remains a major health concern as anti-seizure medications frequently fail, and
there is currently no treatment to stop or prevent epileptogenesis, the process underlying the …

The clinical, imaging, pathological and genetic landscape of bottom-of-sulcus dysplasia

E Macdonald-Laurs, AEL Warren, P Francis… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Bottom-of-sulcus dysplasia (BOSD) is increasingly recognized as a cause of drug-resistant,
surgically-remediable, focal epilepsy, often in seemingly MRI-negative patients. We describe …

Develo** novel experimental models of m-TORopathic epilepsy and related neuropathologies: translational insights from zebrafish

MS de Abreu, KA Demin, MM Kotova, F Mirzaei… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is an important molecular regulator of cell
growth and proliferation. Brain mTOR activity plays a crucial role in synaptic plasticity, cell …

GATOR1 Mutations Impair PI3 Kinase-Dependent Growth Factor Signaling Regulation of mTORC1

M Muller, J Bélanger, I Hadj-Aissa, C Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
GATOR1 (GAP Activity TOward Rag 1) is an evolutionarily conserved GTPase-activating
protein complex that controls the activity of mTORC1 (mammalian Target Of Rapamycin …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic Rapamycin Prevents Electrophysiological and Morphological Alterations Produced by Conditional Pten Deletion in Mouse Cortex

JS Hauptman, J Antonios, GW Mathern, MS Levine… - Cells, 2025 - mdpi.com
Abnormalities in the mammalian target of the rapamycin (mTOR) pathway have been
implicated in numerous developmental brain disorders. While the molecular and histological …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal cell type specific roles for Nprl2 in neurodevelopmental disorder-relevant behaviors

B Dentel, L Angeles-Perez, AY Flores, K Lei… - Neurobiology of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Loss of function in the subunits of the GTPase-activating protein (GAP) activity toward Rags-
1 (GATOR1) complex, an amino-acid sensitive negative regulator of the mechanistic target …

Increased glycine contributes to synaptic dysfunction and early mortality in Nprl2 seizure model

B Dentel, L Angeles-Perez, C Ren, V Jakkamsetti… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Targeted therapies for epilepsies associated with the mTORC1 signaling negative regulator
GATOR1 are lacking. NPRL2 is a subunit of the GATOR1 complex and mutations in …

Genomic landscape reveals evolutionary footprints of adaptability in Indian hill cattle

SF Ahmad, O Aarif, A Kumar, GK Gaur, SM Ahmad… - 2023 - researchsquare.com
The present study is aimed to assess the population structure of hill cattle and analyze the
genomic footprints of selection and adaptation. The population structure and signatures of …