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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2000
Abhay Sharma, Lucknow, IN;
Sushil Kumar, Lucknow, IN;
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, IN;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for screening anti-epileptic drugs using fruit fly,by generating single and double mutant lines of K,channel genes in Drosophila melanogaster, culturing mutant lines on Drosophila medium under standard conditions, identifying the mutants, separating male flies under ether anesthesia, supplying the mutant males with medium containing each of the four antiepileptic drugs, phenobarbital, phenytoin, carbaamazepine and valproate, separately, administering ether anesthesia to the drug treated flies and examining their leg shaking intensity under stereomicroscope, observing the antiepileptic effect in the drug treated males wherein a reduced intensity of leg shaking, compared to leg shaking in normally fed etherized males, is indicative of antiepileptic activity in the drug.