Drug resistance in epilepsy: clinical impact, potential mechanisms, and new innovative treatment options

W Löscher, H Potschka, SM Sisodiya, A Vezzani… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Epilepsy is a chronic neurologic disorder that affects over 70 million people worldwide.
Despite the availability of over 20 antiseizure drugs (ASDs) for symptomatic treatment of …

[HTML][HTML] The blood-brain barrier in systemic inflammation

A Varatharaj, I Galea - Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2017 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) plays a key role in maintaining the specialized
microenvironment of the central nervous system (CNS), and enabling communication with …

Drug-resistant epilepsy: multiple hypotheses, few answers

F Tang, AMS Hartz, B Bauer - Frontiers in neurology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that affects over 70 million people worldwide.
Despite the recent introduction of new antiseizure drugs (ASDs), about one-third of patients …

Neuroimmune axes of the blood–brain barriers and blood–brain interfaces: bases for physiological regulation, disease states, and pharmacological interventions

MA Erickson, WA Banks, R Dantzer - Pharmacological reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Central nervous system (CNS) barriers predominantly mediate the immune-privileged status
of the brain, and are also important regulators of neuroimmune communication. It is …

Blood-brain barrier active efflux transporters: ATP-binding cassette gene family

W Löscher, H Potschka - NeuroRx, 2005 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) contributes to brain homeostasis by protecting the brain from
potentially harmful endogenous and exogenous substances. BBB active drug efflux …

Drug resistance in brain diseases and the role of drug efflux transporters

W Löscher, H Potschka - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2005 - nature.com
Resistance to drug treatment is an important hurdle in the therapy of many brain disorders,
including brain cancer, epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression and infection of the brain with …

The blood-brain barrier in neuroimmunology: tales of separation and assimilation

WA Banks - Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2015 - Elsevier
Neuroimmunology is concerned with the relations between the central nervous and immune
systems and with the mechanisms that drive those relations. The blood-brain barrier (BBB) …

Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors: future therapeutic strategies for epilepsy management

C Rawat, S Kukal, UR Dahiya, R Kukreti - Journal of neuroinflammation, 2019 - Springer
Epilepsy, a common multifactorial neurological disease, affects about 69 million people
worldwide constituting nearly 1% of the world population. Despite decades of extensive …

Role of drug efflux transporters in the brain for drug disposition and treatment of brain diseases

W Löscher, H Potschka - Progress in neurobiology, 2005 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) serves as a protective mechanism for the brain by preventing
entry of potentially harmful substances from free access to the central nervous system …

Drug resistance in epilepsy: putative neurobiologic and clinical mechanisms

D Schmidt, W Löscher - Epilepsia, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Drug‐resistant epilepsy with uncontrolled severe seizures despite state‐of‐the‐art medical
treatment continues to be a major clinical problem for up to one in three patients with …