Editorial: Cellular and molecular targets in epileptogenesis focusing on disease prevention

Diana Cunha-Reis; Sandra Henriques Vaz; Paulo Correia-de-Sá

doi:10.3389/fncel.2023.1251038

Editorial: Cellular and molecular targets in epileptogenesis focusing on disease prevention

Front Cell Neurosci. 2023 Jul 12:17:1251038. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2023.1251038. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Diana Cunha-Reis^{1

2

3}, Sandra Henriques Vaz^{3

4}, Paulo Correia-de-Sá^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
² Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
³ Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
⁴ Instituto de Farmacologia e Neurociências, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
⁵ Laboratório de Farmacologia e Neurobiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto (UP), Porto, Portugal.
⁶ Center for Drug Discovery and Innovative Medicines (MedInUP), Porto, Portugal.

No abstract available

Keywords: DNA methylation; blood-brain barrier; epileptogenesis; inflammation; mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE); miRNA; seizures-diagnosis; synaptic plasticity (LTP/LTD).

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

This work was supported by national and international funding managed by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, IP), Portugal. Grants: FCT UIDB/04046/2020 and UIDP/04046/2020 to BioISI; FCT/POCTI (PTDC/SAU-PUB/28311/2017) EPIRaft grantto DC-R; International Society for Neurochemistry (Carer Development Grant 2021 to SHV), the European Union (H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2017-Twinning (EpiEpinet, grant agreement 952455, to SHV), and FCT UIDB/04308/2020 and UIDP/04308/2020 to PC-d-S via MedInUP. Researcher contract: Norma Transitória - DL57/2016/CP1479/CT0044 to DC-R.