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Alumina cream-induced focal motor epilepsy in cats. Part 5. Excision and transplant of the epileptogenic granuloma.

Abstract
The role of alumina cream (AC) epileptic granulomas in producing clinical convulsions and EEG spikes was evaluated by excising and transplanting such granulomas from donors to recipient cats. In donors, granulomas were produced by single microinjections of AC into the right motor cortex and were subsequently excised during latent premature (P), mature (M), convulsive, and remission stages. The excised granulomas from donors were homogenized and injected into the homologous cortices of the recipient cats. The epileptogenic effect of the AC granuloma transplant in the recipients and the antiepileptogenic effect of the AC granuloma excision in the donors were evaluated by the presence or absence of clinical convulsions and the maximal EEG spike density at the right motor cortex (MSD) after lesion excision and transplant. In addition, a correlation between MSD (spikes/10 min) of donors and recipients and the aluminum content (microgram/ml) in granuloma and perilesional cortex of control epileptic cats (neither excised nor transplanted) was established during latent P, M, convulsive, and remission stages. The epileptogenic effect of AC granulomas transplanted into recipients was significantly larger when they were excised from donors in latent P and M than in convulsive, and in convulsive than in remission. The antiepileptogenic effect of AC granuloma excision in donors was significantly larger in latent P than in latent M and convulsive, and in convulsive than in remission. The aluminum content of AC granuloma and perilesional and contralateral cortices in controls was significantly larger in latent P and M than in convulsive and in convulsive than in remission.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
AuthorsM Velasco, F Velasco, M T Pacheco, E Azpeitia, L Saldívar, F Estrada-Villanueva
JournalEpilepsia (Epilepsia) Vol. 25 Issue 6 Pg. 752-8 (Dec 1984) ISSN: 0013-9580 [Print] United States
PMID6439553 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Aluminum
  • Aluminum Oxide
Topics
  • Aluminum
  • Aluminum Oxide
  • Animals
  • Brain Diseases (surgery)
  • Cats
  • Epilepsies, Partial (chemically induced)
  • Granuloma (surgery)
  • Male
  • Seizures (chemically induced)

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