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ReviewTrends in neurosciences2024

Meningeal brain borders and migraine headache genesis.

Sarah Louise Christensen, Dan Levy

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Review in Trends in neurosciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sarah Louise ChristensenDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Danish Headache Center, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark; Translational Research Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark.
Dan LevyDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: dlevy1@bidmc.harvard.edu.

Funding

MECHANISMS OF CSD-EVOKED PERSISTENT ACTIVATION OF MENINGEAL NOCICEPTORSR01NS078263 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI LEVY, DAN · 2013 to 2022
$3.1M
Response Properties of Meningeal Afferents in Health and MigraineR01NS133625 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI DAN LEVY · 2023 to 2026
$2.4M
Cortical-Meningeal Interactions Underlying Migraine HeadacheR01NS115972 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI DAN LEVY · 2021 to 2026
$2.3M
Peripheral Mechanisms of Posttraumatic HeadacheR01NS086830 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI LEVY, DAN · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
Meningeal Nociceptor-Immune Signaling in MigraineR21NS130561 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI LEVY, DAN · 2022 to 2022
$492k
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS078263NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS086830NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS115972NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS133625NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS130561
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Migraine is a highly prevalent and disabling pain disorder that affects >1 billion people worldwide. One central hypothesis points to the cranial meninges as a key site underlying migraine headache genesis through complex interplay between meningeal sensory nerves, blood vessels, and adjacent immune cells. How these interactions might generate migraine headaches remains incompletely understood and a subject of much debate. In this review we discuss clinical and preclinical evidence supporting the concept that meningeal sterile inflammation, involving neurovascular and neuroimmune interactions, underlies migraine headache genesis. We examine downstream signaling pathways implicated in the development of migraine pain in response to exogenous events such as infusing migraine-triggering chemical substances. We further discuss cortex-to-meninges signaling pathways that could underlie migraine pain in response to endogenous events, such as cortical spreading depolarization (CSD), and explore future directions for the field.

Indexed as

MeningesMigraine DisordersAnimalsBrainHumansInflammationcortical spreading depolarizationcranial meningesmigraine painneurogenic inflammationneuropeptidestrigeminal sensory afferents

Identifiers

PMID39304416
PMCPMC11563857

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