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Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Relationship of Clinically Used Antiseizure Medications in the Maximal Electroshock Seizure Model in Rodents

2025· preprint· en· W4410454838 on OpenAlexaff
Luis E.B. Bettio, Girish Bankar, Céline Dubé, Karen Nelkenbrecher, Maja Filipovic, Sarbjot Singh, Stephanie J. Lee, Andrea Lindgren, Luis Sojo, Richard Dean, J. P. Johnson, Nina Weishaupt

Bibliographic record

VenuePreprints.org · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNeuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Canadian institutionsXenon Pharmaceuticals (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPharmacodynamicsPharmacokineticsSeizure thresholdPharmacologyMedicineAnesthesiaEpilepsyAnticonvulsantPsychiatry

Abstract

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Background/Objective: The assessment of the efficacy of antiseizure medications (ASMs) in animal models of acute seizures has played a critical role in these drugs’ success in clinical trials for human epilepsy. One of the most widely used animal models for this purpose is the maximal electroshock seizure (MES) model. While there are numerous published reports on the efficacy of conventional ASMs in MES models, there is a need to expand the understanding on the brain concentrations that are needed to achieve optimal levels of efficacy in this model. Methods: We evaluated six clinically available ASMs in both a mouse and a rat MES model by analyzing dose-response and concentration-response for brain and plasma exposure levels: carbamazepine (CBZ), phenytoin (PHT), valproic acid (VPA), lacosa-mide (LSM), cenobamate (CNB), and retigabine (RTG). Results: Our data indicate that these ASMs tend to be more effective in reducing seizures in the rat MES, with notable differences in drug metabolism and brain penetrance be-tween mice and rats. Conclusion: These findings highlight the value of considering concentration-response variations and species-specific differences when assessing the efficacy of both conventional ASMs and novel compounds exhibiting anticonvulsant activity.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.004

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.241
GPT teacher head0.476
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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