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ArticlePain management2025

Efficacy and safety of mAbs anti-CGRP/CGRP R (eptinezumab and erenumab) or atogepant in combination with onabotulinumtoxinA in refractory chronic migraine: a clinical trial protocol.

Damiana Scuteri, Gary W Lawrence, Rosario Iannacchero, Michele Trimboli, Pierluigi Nicotera, Maria T Corasaniti, Giacinto Bagetta

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Article in Pain management, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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7 authors.

Damiana ScuteriDepartment of Health Sciences, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5846-7058
Gary W LawrenceDepartment of Biotechnology, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
Rosario IannaccheroDepartment of Neurology, Headache Center, Regional Hospital "Renato Dulbecco", Catanzaro, Italy.
Michele TrimboliDepartment of Neurology, Headache Center, Regional Hospital "Renato Dulbecco", Catanzaro, Italy.
Pierluigi NicoteraGerman Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany.
Maria T CorasanitiDepartment of Health Sciences, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Giacinto BagettaPharmacotechnology Documentation and Transfer Unit, Preclinical and Translational Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic migraine is a disabling neurovascular disorder that represents the leading cause of years lived with disability in people under 50 with a remarkable social burden due to widespread resistance to the front-line treatments used routinely in current clinical practice. The present study investigates the efficacy and safety of combination therapy using eptinezumab and erenumab, recently approved monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) directed against calcitonin gene-related peptide or its receptor, respectively, or the receptor competitive antagonist atogepant together with botulinum toxin type A in chronic migraine that has proven resistant to front-line treatments for at least 6 weeks. To this aim a retrospective and a prospective phase are designed. Furthermore, a feasible salivary biomarker of migraine is under investigation in the prospective stage of the study. Based on recent expert opinions supporting the switch to easy-to-use small molecule calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-targeting, i.e. rimegepant or atogepant in unresponsive patients, the present study may offer to clinicians a novel treatment to enhance the therapeutic preventive machinery in chronic migraine.

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Antibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedBotulinum Toxins, Type ACalcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Receptor AntagonistsMigraine DisordersAdultCalcitonin Gene-Related PeptideChronic DiseaseDrug Therapy, CombinationHumansMaleProspective StudiesRetrospective StudiesTreatment OutcomeAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedBotulinum Toxins, Type ACalcitonin Gene-Related PeptideCalcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Receptor Antagonistseptinezumaberenumabonabotulinum toxin Aanti-CGRP monoclonal antibodiesanti-CGRP-R monoclonal antibodiesatogepantCGRP receptor antagonistschronic migrainegepantsonabotulinumtoxinA

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PMID40169386
PMCPMC12054922

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