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A role for ATP-sensitive potassium channels in the anticonvulsant effects of triamterene in mice

  • Epilepsy Res. 2016 Mar:121:8-13. doi: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2016.01.003.
Hamed Shafaroodi 1,  Saghar Barati 1,  Mehdi Ghasemi 2,  Ali Almasirad 3,  Leila Moezi 4
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Pharmaceutical Sciences Branch and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2 Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA.
  • 3 Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
  • 4 Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; Nanomedicine and Nanobiology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: moezile@yahoo.com.
PMID: 26855365 DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2016.01.003
Abstract

There are reports indicating that diuretics including chlorothiazide, furosemide, ethacrynic acid, amiloride and bumetanide can have anticonvulsant properties. Intracellular acidification appears to be a mechanism for the anticonvulsant action of some diuretics. This study was conducted to investigate whether or not triamterene, a K(+)-sparing diuretic, can generate protection against seizures induced by intravenous or intraperitoneal pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) models. And to see if, triamterene can withstand maximal electroshock seizure (MES) in mice. We also investigated to see if there is any connection between triamterene's anti-seizure effect and ATP-sensitive K(+) (KATP) channels. Five days triamterene oral administration (10, 20 and 40 mg/kg), significantly increased clonic seizure threshold which was induced by intravenous pentylenetetrazole. Triamterene (10, 20 and 40 mg/kg) treatment also increased the latency of clonic seizure and decreased its frequency in intraperitoneal PTZ model. Administration of triamterene (20 mg/kg) also decreased the incidence of tonic seizure in MES-induced seizure. Co-administration of a KATP sensitive channel blocker, glibenclamide, in the 6th day, 60 min before intravenous PTZ blocked triamterene's anticonvulsant effect. A KATP sensitive channel opener, diazoxide, enhanced triamterene's anti-seizure effect in both intravenous PTZ or MES seizure models. At the end, triamterene exerts anticonvulsant effect in 3 seizure models of mice including intravenous PTZ, intraperitoneal PTZ and MES. The anti-seizure effect of triamterene probably is induced through KATP channels.

Keywords

K(ATP) channels; Maximal electroshock; Mice; Pentylenetetrazole; Seizure; Triamterene.

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