Animal models for the study of migraine: Update and future perspective

Functional Neurology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 327-331

  Tassorelli, Cristina ^a   Buzzi, Maria Gabriella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

headache; neuropeptides; nitroglycerin; trigeminovascular system

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; FUTUROLOGY; MIGRAINE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS;

EID: 0030425115     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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