μ-Opioid activation in the prefrontal cortex in migraine attacks – brief report I

μ-Opioid activation in the prefrontal cortex in migraine attacks – brief report I

We evaluated in vivo the μ-opioid system during spontaneous episodic migraine headaches. Seven patients were scanned at different phases of their migraine using positron emission tomography with the selective μ-opioid receptor (μOR) radiotracer [11C]carfentanil. In the ictal phase, there was μOR act...

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Main Authors: DaSilva, Alexandre F, Nascimento, Thiago D, DosSantos, Marcos F, Lucas, Sarah, van Holsbeeck, Hendrik, DeBoer, Misty, Maslowski, Eric, Love, Tiffany, Martikainen, Ilkka K, Koeppe, Robert A, Smith, Yolanda R, Zubieta, Jon-Kar
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110741/

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