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Preclinical, Journal: Golexanolone reduces glial activation in the striatum and improves non-motor and some motor alterations in a rat model of Parkinson's disease. (Pubmed Central) - Jul 8, 2024 Notably, golexanolone reduced the activation of microglia and astrocytes, mitigated TH loss at 5 weeks after surgery, and prevented the increase of ?-synuclein levels at 10 weeks. Golexanolone may be useful in improving both motor and non-motor symptoms that adversely affect the quality of life in PD patients, such as anxiety, depression, fatigue, motor coordination, locomotor gait, and certain cognitive alterations.
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Review, Journal: Allopregnanolone And Its Antagonist Modulate Neuroinflammation And Neurological Impairment. (Pubmed Central) - May 9, 2024 What is surprising is the finding that both allopregnanolone, a steroid-PAM, and golexanolone, a novel GABA-A receptor modulating steroid antagonist (GAMSA), can inhibit microglia and astrocyte activation and normalize their function. This review focuses on the role of steroid-PAMs in neuroinflammation and their importance in new therapeutic approaches to CNS and liver disease.
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Current treatments are lactulose or rifaximin, acting on gut microbiota...HE may be reversed using drugs acting at any step: modulating microbiota with probiotics or fecal transplantation; reducing peripheral inflammation with anti-TNF?, autotaxin inhibitors or silymarin; reducing neuroinflammation with sulforaphane, p38 MAP kinase or phosphodiesteras 5 inhibitors, antagonists of sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 2, enhancing meningeal lymphatic drainage or with extracellular vesicles from mesenchymal stem cells; reducing GABAergic neurotransmission with indomethacin or golexanolone...Only drugs acting on microbiota or ammonia reduction have been tested in patients. t is urgent to change the mentality on how to approach HE treatment to develop clinical trials to assess drugs acting on the immune system/peripheral inflammation, neuroinflammation or neurotransmission to improve HE.
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Golexanolone, a GABA receptor-modulating steroid antagonist, improves peripheral inflammation, fatigue, locomotor gait, motor incoordination and short-term memory in rats with cholestasis and hepatic encephalopathy due to bile duct ligation (Poster Area) - Apr 12, 2023 - Abstract #EASLILC2023EASL_ILC_1817; This is associated with improvement in fatigue, locomotor gait and coordination, and short-term memory. Golexanolone may have beneficial effects to treat symptomatic alterations such as fatigue, and motor-, and cognitive impairment in patients with cholestatic liver disease, or hepatic encephalopathy
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Clinical, Review, Journal: Positive GABA receptor modulating steroids and their antagonists: Implications for clinical treatments. (Pubmed Central) - Apr 20, 2022 The progesterone metabolite allopregnanolone (Allo) is a positive GABA receptor modulating steroid with potent effects...We have demonstrated that isoallopregnanolone (Isoallo), the 3β-OH sibling of Allo, functions as a GABA receptor modulating steroid antagonist (GAMSA) but without any effects of its own on GABA receptors...In humans, vigilance, cognition and pathological electroencephalogram were improved in patients with hepatic encephalopathy on treatment with GR3027. In conclusion GAMSAs are a new possible treatment for disorders and symptoms caused by hyperactivity in the GABA system.
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