Table 5.

Fiber photometry in the studies of neural circuits in epilepsy

Types of epilepsy	Animal models	Methods inducing epilepsy	Related neural circuits	References
TLE	C57BL/6 mice	KA (15 mg/kg)	CA1, CA3, and DG of the hippocampus, as well as the entorhinal cortex	Zhang et al. (2019b)
TLE	C57BL/6 J mice	Stimulated the CA3 of mice with a constant‐current stimulator	DR 5-HTergic system	Cui et al. (2014)
TLE	CR-cre mice and C57BL/6 J mice	Stimulated the CA3 of mice with a constant‐current stimulator	Downstream neural circuits of PIL CR neurons	Qi et al. (2022)
TLE	CR-cre mice and C57BL/6 J mice	Stimulated the CA3 of mice with a constant‐current stimulator	PIL-lateral amygdala CR circuit; PIL-zona incerta CR circuit	Qi et al. (2022)
TLE	kainate model of adult mice (Mus musculus)	KA (200 nL of 2.5 mM into the right CA1)	Hippocampal circuitry including CA3 tracts extending to the dorsoventral portion of the brain	Murphy et al. (2022)