Vascular and Parenchymal Mechanisms in Multiple Drug Resistance: a Lesson from Human Epilepsy

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Long term treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) is the standard therapeutic approach to eradicate seizures. However, a small but significant number of patients fail AED treatment. Intrinsic drug resistance may depend on two main and not necessarily mutually exclusive mechanisms: 1) Loss of pharmacological target (e.g., GABAA receptors); 2) poor penetration of the drug into the central nervous system (CNS)....

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