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| Content Provider | Springer Nature Link |
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| Author | Yildirim, Mehmet Aydin Abidin, Selcen Abidin, Ismail Akca, Metehan Canpolat, Sinan Cansu, Ali |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | In the present study, we aimed to investigate the effects of pinealectomy and chronic melatonin administration on focal epileptiform activity induced by penicillin in the rat cortex and to determine the relation between melatonin levels and electrocorticogram (ECoG) power spectrum. For this purpose, male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into six groups: control, sham operated, ethanol, melatonin, pinealectomy and pinealectomy + melatonin group. Melatonin-treated rats was intraperitoneally injected with a daily single dose of 10 mg/kg melatonin for 14 days, but the last dose was given 30 min after local application of penicillin as a convulsant agent. Focal epileptiform activity was produced by intracortical administration of penicillin (200 units/1 μl). While chronic melatonin application did not affect either the onset latency or the spike frequency of epileptiform activity, pinealectomy significantly reduced latency to onset of initial epileptiform discharges and increased cortical epileptiform activity. However, acute melatonin administration decreased the epileptiform activity. The results also indicated that exogenously applied melatonin did not change the spectral analysis of ECoG, but pinealectomy led to a reduction in the power of the fast bands (gamma) power in ECoG. We conclude that endogenous melatonin signaling seem to have a tonic inhibitory action on neuronal excitability and epileptiform activity, and also a certain concentration of melatonin required for normal cortical excitability. |
| Starting Page | 1672 |
| Ending Page | 1685 |
| Page Count | 14 |
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| ISSN | 03643190 |
| Journal | Neurochemical Research |
| Volume Number | 38 |
| Issue Number | 8 |
| e-ISSN | 15736903 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer US |
| Publisher Date | 2013-05-14 |
| Publisher Place | Boston |
| Access Restriction | One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) |
| Subject Keyword | Melatonin Pinealectomy Electrocorticogram Epileptiform activity Power spectrum Penicillin Neurosciences Neurochemistry Biochemistry Cell Biology Neurology |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Medicine Biochemistry Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience |
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