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The endocannabinoid-CB receptor system: Importance for development and in pediatric disease.

Authors: Ester Fride
Neuro endocrinology letters, February-April 2004

Endogenous cannabinoids (endocannabinoids) and their cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 receptors, are present from the early stages of gestation and play a number of vital roles for the developing organism. Although most of these data are collected from animal studies, a role for cannab…

The endogenous cannabinoid system regulates seizure frequency and duration in a model of temporal lobe epilepsy.

Authors: Melisa J. Wallace, Robert E. Blair, Katherine W. Falenski, Billy R. Martin, Robert J. DeLorenzo
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, October 2003

Several lines of evidence suggest that cannabinoid compounds are anticonvulsant. However, the anticonvulsant potential of cannabinoids and, moreover, the role of the endogenous cannabinoid system in regulating seizure activity has not been tested in an in vivo model of epileps…

Cannabinoids and brain injury: therapeutic implications.

Authors: Raphael Mechoulam, David Panikashvili, Esther Shohami
Trends in Molecular Medicine, February 2002

Mounting in vitro and in vivo data suggest that the endocannabinoids anandamide and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol, as well as some plant and synthetic cannabinoids, have neuroprotective effects following brain injury. Cannabinoid receptor agonists inhibit glutamatergic synaptic tran…