GABAergic Neurotransmission in Human Tissues Is Modulated by Cannabidiol.
Life (Basel)
; 12(12)2022 Dec 06.
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ABSTRACT
Recently, the potential use of phytocannabinoids (pCBs) to treat different pathological conditions has attracted great attention in the scientific community. Among the different pCBs, cannabidiol (CBD) has showed interesting biological properties, making it a promising molecule with a high security profile that has been approved for treatment as an add-on therapy in patients afflicted by severe pharmaco-resistant epilepsy, including Dravet syndrome (DS), Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) and tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). CBD is pharmacologically considered a "dirty drug", since it has the capacity to bind different targets and to activate several cellular pathways. GABAergic impairment is one of the key processes during the epileptogenesis period able to induce a generalized hyperexcitability of the central nervous system (CNS), leading to epileptic seizures. Here, by using the microtransplantation of human brain membranes approach in Xenopus oocytes and electrophysiological recordings, we confirm the ability of CBD to modulate GABAergic neurotransmission in human cerebral tissues obtained from patients afflicted by different forms of pharmaco-resistant epilepsies, such as DS, TSC, focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type IIb and temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Furthermore, using cDNAs encoding for human GABAA receptor subunits, we found that α1ß2 receptors are still affected by CBD, while classical benzodiazepine lost its efficacy as expected.
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Life (Basel)
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2022
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