Advances regarding Neuroinflammation Biomarkers with Noninvasive Techniques in Epilepsy

A rapidly growing body of evidence supports that neuroinflammation plays a major role in epileptogenesis and disease progression. The capacity to identify pathological neuroinflammation in individuals with epilepsy is a crucial step on the timing of anti-inflammatory intervention and patient selecti...

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Published in:Behavioural neurology 2021-12, Vol.2021, p.7946252-9
Main Authors: Ma, Hongrui, Lin, Hua
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Apoptosis
Biological markers
Biomarkers
Brain research
Convulsions & seizures
Cytokines
Development and progression
Disease
Epilepsy
Epilepsy - drug therapy
Flow cytometry
Humans
Immune system
Inflammation
Lymphocytes
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Neuroimaging
Neuroinflammatory Diseases
Pediatrics
Review
Signatures
Surgery
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Summary:A rapidly growing body of evidence supports that neuroinflammation plays a major role in epileptogenesis and disease progression. The capacity to identify pathological neuroinflammation in individuals with epilepsy is a crucial step on the timing of anti-inflammatory intervention and patient selection, which will be challenging aspects in future clinical studies. The discovery of noninvasive biomarkers that are accessible in the blood or molecular neuroimaging would facilitate clinical translation of experimental findings into humans. These innovative and noninvasive approaches have the advantage of monitoring the dynamic changes of neuroinflammation in epilepsy. Here, we will review the available evidence for the measurement of neuroinflammation in patients with epilepsy using noninvasive techniques and critically analyze the major scientific challenges of noninvasive methods. Finally, we propose the potential for use in clinical applications.
ISSN:0953-4180
1875-8584
DOI:10.1155/2021/7946252