Botulinum toxin in migraine: Role of transport in trigemino-somatic and trigemino-vascular afferents

Migraine secondary to meningeal input is referred to extracranial regions innervated by somatic afferents that project to homologous regions in the trigeminal nucleus caudalis (TNC). Reported efficacy of extracranial botulinum toxin (BoNT) in treating migraine is surprising since a local extracrania...

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Main Authors: Roshni Ramachandran, Carmen Lam, Tony L. Yaksh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-07-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996115001588