The role of CGRP in the pathophysiology of migraine and efficacy of CGRP receptor antagonists as acute antimigraine drugs

CM Villalón, J Olesen - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2009 - Elsevier
… may abort migraine. … and selective CGRP receptor antagonists, the importance of CGRP
in the pathophysiology of migraine and the therapeutic principle of CGRP receptor antagonism …

Recognizing the role of CGRP and CGRP receptors in migraine and its treatment

L Edvinsson, K Warfvinge - Cephalalgia, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
… Therefore, we propose that current antimigraine drugs may reach sites in the dura mater
and the trigeminal ganglion, but not in the CNS apart from regions lacking a BBB. Moreover, …

CGRP receptor antagonists: A new frontier of anti-migraine medications

BM de Prado, AF Russo - Drug Discovery Today: Therapeutic Strategies, 2006 - Elsevier
… peptide (CGRP) receptor antagonist that is as effective as triptans in the acute treatment of
… This review will address the likely mechanisms and therapeutic potential of CGRP receptor

CGRP receptor antagonists and antibodies against CGRP and its receptor in migraine treatment

L Edvinsson - British journal of clinical pharmacology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
CGRP that is released from the trigeminovascular system or attached to CGRP receptors
during the migraine … action of CGRP and CGRP receptor interacting agents in migraine therapy …

Pharmacological treatment of migraine: CGRP and 5-HT beyond the triptans

T de Vries, CM Villalón… - Pharmacology & …, 2020 - Elsevier
… These characteristics make the small molecule CGRP receptor antagonists promising
antimigraine drugs. Another advantage of both ubrogepant and atogepant is their increased …

Are 5-HT1 receptor agonists effective anti-migraine drugs?

M Tanaka, N Török, L Vécsei - Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… of its antimigraine action remains unclear [… of drugs joined the repertoire of antimigraine
treatment. Rimegepant and ubrogepant are CGRP receptor antagonists, while humanized CGRP

CGRP and its receptors provide new insights into migraine pathophysiology

TW Ho, L Edvinsson, PJ Goadsby - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2010 - nature.com
… attacks and can trigger migraine in patients, and CGRP receptor antagonists can abort
migraine. We also examine whether other drugs, such as triptans, might exert their antimigraine

Targeting CGRP: a new era for migraine treatment

S Wrobel Goldberg, SD Silberstein - CNS drugs, 2015 - Springer
… treatments to the innovative CGRP target drugs that are … migraine and details on the
characteristic, function, and localization of CGRP to then focus on CGRP receptor antagonists (CGRP

CGRP receptor antagonism and migraine

L Edvinsson, TW Ho - Neurotherapeutics, 2010 - Elsevier
… Based on the role of CGRP in migraine, and the desire for a nonvasoconstrictor treatment,
CGRP receptor antagonism was proposed as a potential therapeutic target. CGRP 8-37 was …

CGRP-receptor antagonism in migraine treatment

L Edvinsson - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
drug acts through a novel antimigraine mechanism by blocking the action of CGRP on the
CGRP-receptor … In the study telcagepant had an antimigraine effect that was not significantly …