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MERTK in the trigeminal system: a novel target for cluster headache and other headache disorders?
2024-04-22
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>The trigeminal system is key to the pathophysiology of migraine and cluster headache, two primary headache disorders that share many features. Recently, MER proto-oncogene tyrosine kinase (MERTK), a cell surface receptor, was strongly associated with cluster headache through genetic studies. Further, the MERTK ligand Galectin-3 has been found to be elevated in serum in migraine patients...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a729694a-5d8b-5548-8e02-d0b14926a836
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4281019/v1
