IL-1β is induced in reactive astrocytes in the somatosensory cortex of rats with genetic absence epilepsy at the onset of spike-and-wave discharges, and contributes to their occurrence

Teresa Ravizza, Mattia Maroso, Nihan Çarçak, +5

Neurobiology of Disease

Brain DevelopmentSynaptic TransmissionImmunologySynaptic SignalingSocial Sciences +16

Seizure expression, behavior, and brain morphology differences in colonies of Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats from Strasbourg

Kim L. Powell, Howard H.F. Tang, Caroline Ng, +9

Epilepsia

Suppression of Hyperpolarization-Activated Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channel Function in Thalamocortical Neurons Prevents Genetically Determined and Pharmacologically Induced Absence Seizures

François David, Nihan Çarçak, Szabina Furdan, +8

Journal of Neuroscience

The relationship between age-related development of spike-and-wave discharges and the resistance to amygdaloid kindling in rats with genetic absence epilepsy

Nihan Çarçak, Rezzan Aker, Osman Özdemir, +2

Neurobiology of Disease

Neurobiological MechanismDevelopmental BiologyNeurophysiologyBrain ScienceNeuroscience +10

Effect of stage 2 kindling on local cerebral blood flow rates in rats with genetic absence epilepsy

Nihan Çarçak, Arielle Ferrandon, Estelle Koning, +4

Epilepsia

Localized cortical injections of ethosuximide suppress spike-and-wave activity and reduce the resistance to kindling in genetic absence epilepsy rats (GAERS)

Rezzan Aker, Kutluhan Tezcan, Nihan Çarçak, +3

Epilepsy Research

NeurophysiologyMedicineSynaptic TransmissionPhysiologyNeuropharmacology +9

Investigating local and long-range neuronal network dynamics by simultaneous optogenetics, reverse microdialysis and silicon probe recordings in vivo

Hannah Taylor, Joscha T. Schmiedt, Nihan Çarçak, +6

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Suppressive effect of Rho-kinase inhibitors Y-27632 and fasudil on spike-and-wave discharges in genetic absence epilepsy rats from Strasbourg (GAERS)

Nihan Çarçak, Melis Yavuz, Tuğba Eryiğit Karamahmutoğlu, +4

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg s Archives of Pharmacology

Molecular NeuroscienceNeurophysiologyRho-kinase Inhibitors Y-27632MedicineNeuropharmacology +9

Atipamezole, a specific α_2A antagonist, suppresses spike‐and‐wave discharges and alters Ca^2⁺/calmodulin‐dependent protein kinase II in the thalamus of genetic absence epilepsy rats

Melis Yavuz, Banu Aydın, Nihan Çarçak, +3

Epilepsia

The role of the substantia nigra pars reticulata in kindling resistance in rats with genetic absence epilepsy

Özlem Akman, Medine I. Gulcebi, Nihan Çarçak, +5

Epilepsia