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Biological science of headache channels.
Handbook of clinical neurology - 1 Jan 2010
Pietrobon Daniela
Abstract excerpt
Several episodic neurological diseases, including familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) and different types of epilepsy, are caused by mutations in ion channels, and hence classified as channelopathies. The classification of FHM as a channelopathy has introduced a new perspective in headache research and has strengthened the idea of migraine as a disorder of neural excitability. Here we review recent studies of the...
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