Authors: Ivan Garza
Publish Date: 2010/01/12
Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-9
Abstract
Headache research was very limited before the 1980s Since then a better understanding of migraine pathophysiology has gradually surfaced Cortical spreading depression CSD is a neurophysiologic phenomenon that since its discovery by Leão has been amply investigated and is now widely recognized as the neurophysiologic substrate of migraine aura 1 SB220453 now known as tonabersat is a benzoylaminobenzopyran compound that has shown the ability to inhibit CSD in animal models of migraine 2 Great interest has developed with regard to the possibility that pharmacologic CSD inhibition may prevent migraine headache attacks although in a human model of migraine tonabersat failed as a preemptive antimigraine agent in a doubleblind study 2 For prophylaxis
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