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Henrik Klitgaard

Henrik Klitgaard

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Neuroscience

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51
Citations
8896
World Ranking
5552
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66

Overview

Henrik Klitgaard is affiliated with UCB Pharma in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research predominantly focuses on epilepsy, pharmacological effects, and RNA-related therapeutic approaches within neurological and neurogenetic disorders.

Klitgaard's work spans several core research topics including:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Pharmacological effects and toxicity studies
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • RNA interference and gene delivery
  • Drug transport and resistance mechanisms
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • Neurogenetic and muscular disorders research

Their recent publications reveal an emphasis on epilepsy and neuropharmacology, with papers such as:

  • "Repurposed molecules for antiepileptogenesis: Missing an opportunity to prevent epilepsy?", 2020, Epilepsia
  • "Behavioral adverse events with brivaracetam, levetiracetam, perampanel, and topiramate: A systematic review", 2021, Epilepsy & Behavior
  • "Clinical advances of RNA therapeutics for treatment of neurological and neuromuscular diseases", 2022, RNA Biology
  • "Targeting the NRF2 pathway for disease modification in neurodegenerative diseases: mechanisms and therapeutic implications", 2024, Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • "Drug characteristics derived from kinetic modeling: combined 11C-UCB-J human PET imaging with levetiracetam and brivaracetam occupancy of SV2A", 2022, EJNMMI Research

The prominent publication venues for Klitgaard include:

  • Epilepsia
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • RNA Biology
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • EJNMMI Research

Frequent co-authors working alongside Klitgaard are:

  • Stine N. Hansen
  • Pavel Klein
  • Sakari Kauppinen
  • Bernhard J. Steinhoff
  • Cédric Laloyaux

Klitgaard's subfields of study emphasize psychiatry and mental health, molecular biology, genetics, physiology, as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to neurological and genetic disorders.

Best Publications

  • New avenues for anti-epileptic drug discovery and development

    Wolfgang Löscher;Henrik Klitgaard;Roy E. Twyman;Dieter Schmidt

  • Evidence for a unique profile of levetiracetam in rodent models of seizures and epilepsy.

    Henrik Klitgaard;Alain Matagne;Jean Gobert;Ernst Wülfert

  • The anti-epileptic drug levetiracetam reverses the inhibition by negative allosteric modulators of neuronal GABA- and glycine-gated currents

    Jean-Michel Rigo;Grégory Hans;Laurent Nguyen;Véronique Rocher

  • Discovery of 4-substituted pyrrolidone butanamides as new agents with significant antiepileptic activity.

    Benoit M Kenda;Alain C Matagne;Patrice E Talaga;Patrick M Pasau

  • Levetiracetam inhibits the high-voltage-activated Ca2+ current in pyramidal neurones of rat hippocampal slices

    Isabelle Niespodziany;Henrik Klitgaard;Doru Georg Margineanu

  • Commonalities in epileptogenic processes from different acute brain insults: Do they translate?

    Pavel Klein;Raymond Dingledine;Eleonora Aronica;Christophe Bernard

  • Anti-convulsive and anti-epileptic properties of brivaracetam (ucb 34714), a high-affinity ligand for the synaptic vesicle protein, SV2A

    Alain Matagne;D-G Margineanu;Benoît Kenda;Philippe Michel

  • SV2A protein is a broad-spectrum anticonvulsant target: functional correlation between protein binding and seizure protection in models of both partial and generalized epilepsy.

    Rafal M. Kaminski;Alain Matagne;Karine Leclercq;Michel Gillard

  • Levetiracetam does not modulate neuronal voltage-gated Na+and T-type Ca2+currents

    Cristina Zona;Isabelle Niespodziany;Caterina Marchetti;Henrik Klitgaard

  • Levetiracetam: the preclinical profile of a new class of antiepileptic drugs?

    Henrik Klitgaard

  • Reduction of voltage-operated potassium currents by levetiracetam: a novel antiepileptic mechanism of action?

    Michael Madeja;Doru Georg Margineanu;Ali Gorji;Elke Siep

  • Brivaracetam: Rationale for discovery and preclinical profile of a selective SV2A ligand for epilepsy treatment

    Henrik Klitgaard;Alain Matagne;Jean-Marie Nicolas;Michel Gillard

  • Validation of corneally kindled mice: a sensitive screening model for partial epilepsy in man

    Alain Matagne;Henrik Klitgaard

  • Synaptic Vesicle Glycoprotein 2A Ligands in the Treatment of Epilepsy and Beyond

    Wolfgang Löscher;Michel Gillard;Zara A. Sands;Rafal M. Kaminski

  • Inhibition of neuronal hypersynchrony in vitro differentiates levetiracetam from classical antiepileptic drugs

    Doru Georg Margineanu;Henrik Klitgaard

  • Brivaracetam, a selective high-affinity synaptic vesicle protein 2A (SV2A) ligand with preclinical evidence of high brain permeability and fast onset of action.

    Jean‐Marie Nicolas;Jonas Hannestad;Daniel Holden;Sophie Kervyn

  • Neuroprotective properties of the novel antiepileptic drug levetiracetam in the rat middle cerebral artery occlusion model of focal cerebral ischemia

    Etienne Hanon;Henrik Klitgaard

  • Proepileptic phenotype of SV2A-deficient mice is associated with reduced anticonvulsant efficacy of levetiracetam.

    Rafal M. Kaminski;Michel Gillard;Karine Leclercq;Etienne Hanon

  • Increased slow oscillatory activity in substantia nigra pars reticulata triggers abnormal involuntary movements in the 6-OHDA-lesioned rat in the presence of excessive extracelullar striatal dopamine

    Wassilios Meissner;Paula Ravenscroft;René Reese;René Reese;Daniel Harnack

  • Pilocarpine-induced epileptogenesis in the rat:: Impact of initial duration of status epilepticus on electrophysiological and neuropathological alterations

    Henrik Klitgaard;Alain Matagne;Jocelyne Vanneste-Goemaere;Doru-Georg Margineanu

  • Anticonvulsant effects of levetiracetam and levetiracetam-diazepam combinations in experimental status epilepticus.

    Andrey M Mazarati;Roger Baldwin;Henrik Klitgaard;Alain Matagne

Frequent Co-Authors

Claude G. Wasterlain
Claude G. Wasterlain University of California, Los Angeles
Nabeel Nabulsi
Nabeel Nabulsi Yale University
Dieter Schmidt
Dieter Schmidt Freie Universität Berlin
Amy R. Brooks-Kayal
Amy R. Brooks-Kayal University of Colorado Denver
Asla Pitkänen
Asla Pitkänen University of Eastern Finland
Michael A. Rogawski
Michael A. Rogawski University of California, Davis
Heidrun Potschka
Heidrun Potschka Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Elinor Ben-Menachem
Elinor Ben-Menachem University of Gothenburg
Mika Naganawa
Mika Naganawa Yale University
Annamaria Vezzani
Annamaria Vezzani Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research

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