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- Title
Inhibitory Effects of Cenobamate on Multiple Human Cardiac Ion Channels and Possible Arrhythmogenic Consequences.
- Authors
Mateias, Andreea Larisa; Armasescu, Florian; Amuzescu, Bogdan; Corlan, Alexandru Dan; Radu, Beatrice Mihaela
- Abstract
Cenobamate is a novel third-generation antiepileptic drug used for the treatment of focal onset seizures and particularly for multi-drug-resistant epilepsy; it acts on multiple targets: GABAA receptors (EC50 42–194 µM) and persistent neuronal Na+ currents (IC50 59 µM). Side effects include QTc interval shortening with >20 ms, but not <300 ms. Our in vitro cardiac safety pharmacology study was performed via whole-cell patch-clamp on HEK293T cells with persistent/inducible expression of human cardiac ion channel isoforms hNav1.5 (INa), hCav1.2 (α1c + β2 + α2δ1) (ICaL), hKv7.1 + minK (IKs), and hKv11.1 (hERG) (IKr). We found IC50 of 87.6 µM (peak INa), 46.5 µM (late INa), and 509.75 µM (ICaL). In experiments on Ncyte® ventricular cardiomyocytes, APD90 was reduced with 28.6 ± 13.5% (mean ± SD) by cenobamate 200 µM. Cenobamate's marked inhibition of INa raises the theoretical possibility of cardiac arrhythmia induction at therapeutic concentrations in the context of preexisting myocardial pathology, in the presence of action potential conduction and repolarization heterogeneity. This hypothetical mechanism is consistent with the known effects of class Ib antiarrhythmics. In simulations with a linear strand of 50 cardiomyocytes with variable inter-myocyte conductance based on a modified O'Hara–Rudy model, we found a negligible cenobamate-induced conduction delay in normal tissue, but a marked delay and also a block when gap junction conduction was already depressed.
- Subjects
SEIZURES (Medicine); ACTION potentials; VENTRICULAR arrhythmia; ANTICONVULSANTS; PATHOLOGY; ION channels
- Publication
Biomolecules (2218-273X), 2024, Vol 14, Issue 12, p1582
- ISSN
2218-273X
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.3390/biom14121582