Administration of simvastatin after kainic acid-induced status epilepticus restrains chronic temporal lobe epilepsy.

In this study, we examined the effect of chronic administration of simvastatin immediately after status epilepticus (SE) on rat brain with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). First, we evaluated cytokines expression at 3 days post KA-lesion in hippocampus and found that simvastatin-treatment suppressed le...

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Main Authors: Chuncheng Xie, Jiahang Sun, Weidong Qiao, Dunyue Lu, Lanlan Wei, Meng Na, Yuanyuan Song, Xiaohua Hou, Zhiguo Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21949812/pdf/?tool=EBI