Cortical spreading depression and estrogen

Headache

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Eikermann Haerter, Katharina ^a   Kudo, Chiho ^a   Moskowitz, Michael A ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical spreading depression; Estrogen; Familial hemiplegic migraine

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GLUTAMIC ACID; METHYSERGIDE; PROPRANOLOL; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ASTROCYTE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE AURA; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ESTROGENS; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NEURONS; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION;

EID: 34548546820     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2007.00818.x     Document Type: Review

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