Synergistic Cardiac Protection by Thymoquinone and Valproic Acid in Absence Epilepsy
Yasin Ali CIMEN, Fatma Bedia KARAKAYA-CIMEN, Huri DEMIRCI, Ozlem Tugce CILINGIR-KAYA · 2026
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Description
Four authors present a rat study dated two thousand twenty-six on heart damage linked to a form of epilepsy. Absence epilepsy brings brief staring spells, and the standard drug for it is valproic acid. The team asked whether a plant compound called thymoquinone, alone or with the drug, can protect the heart muscle during the disease.
They compared healthy rats with rats bred for absence epilepsy, across six treatment groups over eight days. The disease alone raised oxidative stress and cell-death signals in heart tissue without scarring it. The plant compound partly reversed those shifts, and the pairing is examined for a combined effect.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yasin Ali CIMEN, Fatma Bedia KARAKAYA-CIMEN, Huri DEMIRCI, Ozlem Tugce CILINGIR-KAYA |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |