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ArticleNeuroscience2013

Hypothalamic and basal ganglia projections to the posterior thalamus: possible role in modulation of migraine headache and photophobia.

R Kagan, V Kainz, R Burstein, R Noseda

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Article in Neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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46citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Migraine, Allergy, and Histamine: Is There a Link?Journal of clinical medicine · 2023
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  18. Cerebro-Cerebellar Networks in Migraine Symptoms and Headache.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

R KaganDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard College, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
V KainzDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
R BursteinDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
R NosedaDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: rnoseda@bidmc.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · US

Funding

Photophobia during migraine: sensory, autonomic and emotional responses to lightR37NS079678 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI BURSTEIN, RAMI · 2012 to 2018
$3.1M
Migraine pathophysiology: neural basis of photophobiaR01NS069847 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI BURSTEIN, RAMI · 2010 to 2014
$1.9M
NINDS NIH HHS NS-069847NINDS NIH HHS NS-079687NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS069847NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS079678
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Migraine attacks are typically described as unilateral, throbbing pain that is usually accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and exaggerated sensitivities to light, noise and smell. The headache phase of a migraine attack is mediated by activation of the trigeminovascular pathway; a nociceptive pathway that originates in the meninges and carries pain signals through meningeal nociceptors to the spinal trigeminal nucleus and from there to the cortex through relay neurons in the thalamus. Recent studies in our lab have identified a population of trigeminovascular neurons in the posterior (Po) and lateral posterior (LP) thalamic nuclei that may be involved in the perception of whole-body allodynia (abnormal skin sensitivity) and photophobia (abnormal sensitivity to light) during migraine. The purpose of the current study was to identify sub-cortical areas that are in position to directly regulate the activity of these thalamic trigeminovascular neurons. Such process begins with anatomical mapping of neuronal projections to the posterior thalamus of the rat by performing discrete injections of the retrograde tracer Fluorogold into the Po/LP region. Such injections yielded retrogradely labeled neurons in the nucleus of the diagonal band of Broca, the dopaminergic cells group A11/A13, the ventromedial and ventral tuberomammillary nuclei of the hypothalamus. We also found that some of these neurons contain acetylcholine, dopamine, cholecystokinin and histamine, respectively. Accordingly, we speculate that these forebrain/hypothalamic projections to Po and LP may play a role in those migraine attacks triggered by disrupted sleep, skipping meals and emotional reactions.

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PMID23806720
PMCPMC3858508
OpenAlexW2036329827

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