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Serotonergic Modulation as Effective Treatment for Dravet Syndrome in a Zebrafish Mutant Model.
ACS chemical neuroscience - 18 May 2016
Sourbron Jo, Schneider Henning, Kecskés Angéla, Liu Yusu, Buening Ellen M, Lagae Lieven, Smolders Ilse, de Witte Peter
Abstract excerpt
Dravet syndrome (DS) is a severe epilepsy syndrome that starts within the first year of life. In a clinical study, add-on treatment with fenfluramine, a potent 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) releaser activating multiple 5-HT receptor subtypes, made 70% of DS children seizure free. Others and we recently confirmed the efficacy of fenfluramine as an antiepileptiform compound in zebrafish models of DS. By using a large...
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