A novel, noninvasive, predictive epilepsy biomarker with clinical potential.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE(2014)
摘要
A significant proportion of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), a common, intractable brain disorder, arises in children with febrile status epilepticus (FSE). Preventative therapy development is hampered by our inability to identify early the FSE individuals who will develop TLE. In a naturalistic rat model of FSE, we used high-magnetic-field MRI and long-term video EEG to seek clinically relevant noninvasive markers of epileptogenesis and found that reduced amygdala T-2 relaxation times in high-magnetic-field MRI hours after FSE predicted experimental TLE. Reduced T-2 values likely represented paramagnetic susceptibility effects derived from increased unsaturated venous hemoglobin, suggesting augmented oxygen utilization after FSE termination. Indeed, T-2 correlated with energy-demanding intracellular translocation of the injury-sensor high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1), a trigger of inflammatory cascades implicated in epileptogenesis. Use of deoxyhemoglobin-sensitive MRI sequences enabled visualization of the predictive changes on lower-field, clinically relevant scanners. This novel MRI signature delineates the onset and suggests mechanisms of epileptogenesis that follow experimental FSE.
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biomarker,epilepsy,febrile seizures,inflammation,MRI,predictive
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