Title
Raloxifene potentiates the effect of fluoxetine against maximal electroshock induced seizures in mice
Date Issued
15 April 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Pottoo F.H.
Tabassum N.
Javed M.N.
Nigar S.
Sharma S.
Barkat M.A.
Harshita
Alam M.S.
Ansari M.A.
Ashraf G.M.
University of Limerick
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
The evidence to guide clinicians regarding rationale polytherapy with current antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) is lacking, and current practice recommendations are largely empirical. The excessive drug loading with combinatorial therapies of existing AEDs are associated with escalated neurotoxicity, and that emergence of pharmacoresistant seizures couldn't be averted. In pursuit of judicious selection of novel AEDs in combinatorial therapies with mechanism based evidences, standardized dose of raloxifene, fluoxetine, bromocriptine and their low dose combinations, were experimentally tested for their impact on maximal electroshock (MES) induced tonic hind limb extension (THLE) in mice. Hippocampal neuropeptide Y (NPY) levels, oxidative stress and histopathological studies were undertaken. The results suggest the potentiating effect of 4 mg/kg raloxifene on 14 mg/kg fluoxetine against MES induced THLE, as otherwise monotherapy with 4 mg/kg raloxifene was unable to produce an effect. The results also depicted better efficacy than carbamazepine (20 mg/kg), standard AED. Most profoundly, MES-induced significant (P < 0.001) reduction in hippocampal NPY levels, that were escalated insignificantly with the duo-drug combination, suggesting some other mechanism in mitigation of electroshock induced seizures. These results were later corroborated with assays to assess oxidative stress and neuronal damage. In conclusion, the results demonstrated the propitious therapeutic benefit of duo-drug low dose combination of drugs; raloxifene and fluoxetine, with diverse mode of actions fetching greater effectiveness in the management of generalized tonic clonic seizures (GTCS).
Volume
146
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biotecnología agrícola, Biotecnología alimentaria
Ciencia veterinaria
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85079606431
PubMed ID
Source
European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
ISSN of the container
09280987
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to acknowledge Unicure (India) Pvt. Ltd. Noida, for carrying out the pharmaceutical analysis of APIs.
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