The enigma of site of action of migraine preventives: no effect of metoprolol on trigeminal pain processing in patients and healthy controls

Abstract Background Beta-blockers are a first choice migraine preventive medication. So far it is unknown how they exert their therapeutic effect in migraine. To this end we examined the neural effect of metoprolol on trigeminal pain processing in 19 migraine patients and 26 healthy controls. All pa...

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Main Authors: Julia M. Hebestreit, Arne May
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:The Journal of Headache and Pain
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s10194-017-0827-x