A new horizon into the pathobiology, etiology and treatment of migraine

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 147-151

  Dhillon, Kundan Singh ^a   Singh, Jasmer ^a   Lyall, Jarnail Singh ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CALCIUM; CATALASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; ESTROGEN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MELATONIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PEROXYNITRITE; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; RETINOL; SELENIUM; THYROXINE; UBIDECARENONE; VITAMIN B COMPLEX; ZINC; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC SULFATE;

ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTRACEPTION; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE DURATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL MIGRAINE; MENSTRUATION; MIGRAINE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NOCICEPTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PREGNANCY; REMISSION; REMYELINIZATION; SCHWANN CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PLACEBOS; ZINC SULFATE;

EID: 79958048554     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.03.050     Document Type: Article

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