ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2009
Deciphering migraine.
Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.
- Microvascular brain damage in middle-aged women with a history of migraine with aura and/or ischemic stroke.International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society · 2026Article
- Migraine is a dysfunction of neuronal potassium ion channels.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Astrocytes as critical players of the fine balance between inhibition and excitation in the brain: spreading depolarization as a mechanism to curb epileptic activity.Frontiers in network physiology · 2024Review
- Brain Energy Deficit as a Source of Oxidative Stress in Migraine: A Molecular Basis for Migraine Susceptibility.Neurochemical research · 2021Review
- Dynamics of Ionic Shifts in Cortical Spreading Depression.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2015Article
- Intercellular Ca(2+) waves: mechanisms and function.Physiological reviews · 2012Review
- Bleeding in the brain: Killer waves of depolarization in subarachnoid bleed.Nature medicine · 2009Article
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Abstract
Migraine is an episodic headache disorder affecting as many as 10% of people worldwide. Familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) is an autosomal dominant subtype of severe migraine accompanied by visual disturbances known as aura. Migrainous aura is caused by cortical spreading depression (CSD) - a slowly advancing wave of tissue depolarization in the cortex. More than half of FHM cases are caused by mutations in the CACNA1A gene, which encodes a neuronal Cav2.1 Ca2+ channel, resulting in increased Ca2+ flow into dendrites and excessive release of the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate. In this issue of the JCI, Eikermann-Haerter et al. show that transgenic mice with FHM-associated mutations in Cacna1a have increased susceptibility to CSD compared with wild-type animals, likely due to augmentation of excitatory neurotransmission (see the related article beginning on page 99). Additional as-yet-undefined channel mutations may similarly render the migraine brain more susceptible to the initiation of CSD, with implications not only for the genesis of migraine but also for the hypoxic injury that accompanies its worst manifestation, complicated migraine.
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