Anticonvulsant and proconvulsant roles of nitric oxide in experimental epilepsy models

Anticonvulsant and proconvulsant roles of nitric oxide in experimental epilepsy models

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The effect of acute (120 mg/kg) and chronic (25 mg/kg, twice a day, for 4 days) intraperitonial injection of the nitric oxide (NO) synthase (NOS) inhibitor NG-nitro-L-arginine (L-NOARG) was evaluated on seizure induction Machines by drugs such as pilocarpine and pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) and by sound stimulation of audiogenic seizure-resistant (R) and audiogenic seizure-susceptible (S) rats.Seizures were elicited by a subconvulsant dose of pilocarpine (100 mg/kg) only after NOS inhibition.NOS inhibition also simultaneously potentiated the severity of PTZ-induced limbic seizures (60 mg/kg) and protected against PTZ-induced tonic seizures (80 mg/kg).The audiogenic seizure susceptibility of S or R rats did not change after similar treatments.

In conclusion, proconvulsant effects of NOS inhibition Armored Vehicle are suggested to occur in the pilocarpine model and in the limbic components of PTZ-induced seizures, while an anticonvulsant role is suggested for the tonic seizures induced by higher doses of PTZ, revealing inhibitor-specific interactions with convulsant dose and also confirming the hypothesis that the effects of NOS inhibitors vary with the model of seizure.