Table 4.

In vivo microdialysis in the studies of neural circuits in epilepsy

Types of epilepsy	Animal models	Methods inducing epilepsy	Related neural circuits	References
MTLE	Male Sprague–Dawley rats	Methionine sulfoximine (2.5 mg/mL)	GABAergic neurotransmission	Dhaher et al. (2021)
Autosomal dominant sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy	S286L-TG rats		Transmission abnormalities of L-glutamate and GABA in the thalamocortical pathway	Fukuyama et al. (2020b)
Autosomal dominant sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy	S286L-TG rats		Transmission in the RTN–MDTN–OFC pathway associated with connexin hemichannel	Fukuyama et al. (2020a)
Epilepsy	Thy1-ChR2 rats	Optogenetic stimulation	Acquired hyperexcitable circuit	Shimoda et al. (2022)