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Ezogabine: a new angle on potassium gates.

Epilepsy currents

Faught E.
PMID: 21686305
Epilepsy Curr. 2011 May;11(3):75-8. doi: 10.5698/1535-7511-11.3.75.

Ezogabine is a new drug for adjunctive therapy of partial-onset seizures with a novel mechanism of action. As a potassium-channel facilitator, it promotes membrane repolarization and thus opposes rapid repetitive discharges. Side effects are typical for antiepileptic drugs and...

Retigabine (ezogabine) as add-on therapy for partial-onset seizures: an update for clinicians.

Therapeutic advances in chronic disease

Harris JA, Murphy JA.
PMID: 23251762
Ther Adv Chronic Dis. 2011 Nov;2(6):371-6. doi: 10.1177/2040622311421542.

OBJECTIVE: The present study reviewed the pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, efficacy, and safety of retigabine (ezogabine), a potential agent for use as adjunctive treatment in refractory partial-onset seizures.METHODS: A MEDLINE search (1966-May 2011) was conducted using the key words retigabine, ezogabine,...

Study of gender-related pharmacokinetics of ezogabine in Egyptian volunteers by a validated LC-MS/MS bioanalytical method.

Journal of advanced research

Elkady EF, Aboelwafa AA, Fouad MA.
PMID: 31956446
J Adv Res. 2019 Nov 22;22:99-104. doi: 10.1016/j.jare.2019.11.008. eCollection 2020 Mar.

Gender-based pharmacokinetics and/or pharmacodynamics differences can result in differences in treatment which can accordingly affect the drug safety and/or efficacy. A new validated bio-analytical LC-MS/MS method was developed for the estimation of ezogabine, a third-generation antiepileptic drug, in human...

How to replace the lost keys? Strategies toward safer K.

Future medicinal chemistry

Bock C, Link A.
PMID: 30802153
Future Med Chem. 2019 Feb 25; doi: 10.4155/fmc-2018-0350. Epub 2019 Feb 25.

The highly structurally similar drugs flupirtine and retigabine have been regarded as safe and effective for many years but lately they turned out to exert intolerable side effects. While the twin molecules share the mode of action, both stabilize...

Retigabine-ezogabine: A new treatment option for bipolar disorder?.

Bipolar disorders

Mazza M, Marano G, Janiri L.
PMID: 30811779
Bipolar Disord. 2019 May;21(3):283-284. doi: 10.1111/bdi.12762. Epub 2019 Mar 13.

No abstract available.

Clinical utility, safety, and tolerability of ezogabine (retigabine) in the treatment of epilepsy.

Drug, healthcare and patient safety

Ciliberto MA, Weisenberg JL, Wong M.
PMID: 22888276
Drug Healthc Patient Saf. 2012;4:81-6. doi: 10.2147/DHPS.S28814. Epub 2012 Jul 26.

One-third of patients with epilepsy continue to have seizures despite current treatments, indicating the need for better antiseizure medications with novel mechanisms of action. Ezogabine (retigabine) has recently been approved for adjunctive treatment of partial-onset seizures in adult patients...

Age dependent effects of Retigabine on absence seizure in WAG/Rij rats; an experimental study.

Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

Karadenizli S, Şahin D, Ateş N.
PMID: 34133772
Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2021 Sep;48(9):1251-1260. doi: 10.1111/1440-1681.13537. Epub 2021 Jul 04.

Retigabine (RTG, Ezogabine, DC23129) is the first neuronal potassium channel opener in the treatment of epilepsy and exerts its effects through the activation of neuronal KCNQ2/3 potassium channels; in higher doses, it acts also on sodium and voltage-gated calcium...

Effect of Ezogabine on Cortical and Spinal Motor Neuron Excitability in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

JAMA neurology

Wainger BJ, Macklin EA, Vucic S, McIlduff CE, Paganoni S, Maragakis NJ, Bedlack R, Goyal NA, Rutkove SB, Lange DJ, Rivner MH, Goutman SA, Ladha SS, Mauricio EA, Baloh RH, Simmons Z, Pothier L, Kassis SB, La T, Hall M, Evora A, Klements D, Hurtado A, Pereira JD, Koh J, Celnik PA, Chaudhry V, Gable K, Juel VC, Phielipp N, Marei A, Rosenquist P, Meehan S, Oskarsson B, Lewis RA, Kaur D, Kiskinis E, Woolf CJ, Eggan K, Weiss MD, Berry JD, David WS, Davila-Perez P, Camprodon JA, Pascual-Leone A, Kiernan MC, Shefner JM, Atassi N, Cudkowicz ME.
PMID: 33226425
JAMA Neurol. 2021 Feb 01;78(2):186-196. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.4300.

IMPORTANCE: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of the motor nervous system. Clinical studies have demonstrated cortical and spinal motor neuron hyperexcitability using transcranial magnetic stimulation and threshold tracking nerve conduction studies, respectively, although metrics of...

KCNQ2 encephalopathy: Features, mutational hot spots, and ezogabine treatment of 11 patients.

Neurology. Genetics

Millichap JJ, Park KL, Tsuchida T, Ben-Zeev B, Carmant L, Flamini R, Joshi N, Levisohn PM, Marsh E, Nangia S, Narayanan V, Ortiz-Gonzalez XR, Patterson MC, Pearl PL, Porter B, Ramsey K, McGinnis EL, Taglialatela M, Tracy M, Tran B, Venkatesan C, Weckhuysen S, Cooper EC.
PMID: 27602407
Neurol Genet. 2016 Aug 22;2(5):e96. doi: 10.1212/NXG.0000000000000096. eCollection 2016 Oct.

OBJECTIVE: To advance the understanding of KCNQ2 encephalopathy genotype-phenotype relationships and to begin to assess the potential of selective KCNQ channel openers as targeted treatments.METHODS: We retrospectively studied 23 patients with KCNQ2 encephalopathy, including 11 treated with ezogabine (EZO)....

New antiepileptic medication linked to blue discoloration of the skin and eyes.

Therapeutic advances in drug safety

Clark S, Antell A, Kaufman K.
PMID: 25642319
Ther Adv Drug Saf. 2015 Feb;6(1):15-9. doi: 10.1177/2042098614560736.

Ezogabine is an antiepileptic medication approved in June 2011 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an adjunctive treatment for partial seizures. Minimal drug interactions and a novel mechanism of action made ezogabine an appealing new treatment...

Investigation of the impact of urine handling procedures on interpretation of urinalysis findings and product safety in subjects treated with ezogabine.

Therapeutics and clinical risk management

Brickel N, Derossett S, Buraglio M, Evans C, Jones S.
PMID: 23671389
Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2013;9:207-13. doi: 10.2147/TCRM.S42536. Epub 2013 May 07.

BACKGROUND: Ezogabine (also known by the international nonproprietary name of retigabine) is an antiepileptic drug codeveloped and comarketed by Valeant Pharmaceuticals North America and GlaxoSmithKline, which reduces neuronal excitability by enhancing the activity of potassium channels and has the...

Physician and Pharmacist Understanding of the Risk of Urinary Retention with Retigabine (Ezogabine): A REMS Assessment Survey.

Drugs - real world outcomes

Ishihara L, Beck M, Travis S, Akintayo O, Brickel N.
PMID: 26690543
Drugs Real World Outcomes. 2015;2(4):335-344. doi: 10.1007/s40801-015-0042-5. Epub 2015 Oct 07.

BACKGROUND: The Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for retigabine/ezogabine (RTG/EZG) required an evaluation of the effectiveness of the communication plan to communicate about the risks with use of RTG/EZG.OBJECTIVE: GlaxoSmithKline conducted a survey to assess understanding of the...

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