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MEDICAL HYPOTHESES
Volume 72, Issue 3, Pages 297-305Publisher
CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.09.049
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Medical management and drug development for epilepsy emphasizes increasing pharmacological specificity to improve efficacy while minimizing side effects. However, growing evidence supports potential benefits of magic shotgun over magic bullet approaches to treatment of complex disease processes. We discuss experimental and theoretical evidence suggesting that seizures may be more amenable to a multi-target rather than a high-specificity approach. including evidence that individual anticonvulsants directly modulate a variety ion channel targets, the most direct determinants of neuronal excitability. Although the relevance of this promiscuity remains untested, it may contribute to anticonvulsant efficacy and should therefore be considered in drug development strategies and in therapeutic decision making. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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