Towards a pragmatic human migraine model for drug testing: 2. Isosorbide-5-mononitrate in healthy individuals
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Towards a pragmatic human migraine model for drug testing : 2. Isosorbide-5-mononitrate in healthy individuals. / Hansen, Emma Katrine; Olesen, Jes.
I: Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache, Bind 37, Nr. 1, 2017, s. 11-19.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Towards a pragmatic human migraine model for drug testing
T2 - 2. Isosorbide-5-mononitrate in healthy individuals
AU - Hansen, Emma Katrine
AU - Olesen, Jes
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Background A model for the testing of novel anti-migraine drugs should preferably use healthy volunteers for ease of recruiting. Isosorbide-5-mononitrate (5-ISMN) provokes headache in healthy volunteers with some migraine features such as pulsating pain quality and aggravation by physical activity. Therefore, this headache might respond to sumatriptan, a requirement for validation of any model. The hypothesis of the present study was that sumatriptan is effective in 5-ISMN-induced headache in healthy individuals. Methods In a double-blind, randomised, crossover design, 30 healthy volunteers of both sexes received 5-ISMN 60 mg on two separate days, each day followed by oral self-administered placebo or sumatriptan 50 mg. Headache response and accompanying symptoms were registered in a questionnaire by the participants themselves. Results 5-ISMN induced a reproducible headache in all 30 participants. The headache had several migraine-like features in all participants and 20 individuals developed a migraine-like attack. Median peak headache score was 5 on both experimental days ( p = 1.00). There was no reduction, but instead an increase in headache intensity 2 hours after sumatriptan ( p = 0.003). Difference in area under the headache score curve (AUC) 0-4 hours between sumatriptan and placebo was not significant ( p = 0.30). Conclusion 5-ISMN is a very powerful inducer of migraine-like headache in healthy individuals but the headache does not respond to sumatriptan. The model is not useful for future drug testing.
AB - Background A model for the testing of novel anti-migraine drugs should preferably use healthy volunteers for ease of recruiting. Isosorbide-5-mononitrate (5-ISMN) provokes headache in healthy volunteers with some migraine features such as pulsating pain quality and aggravation by physical activity. Therefore, this headache might respond to sumatriptan, a requirement for validation of any model. The hypothesis of the present study was that sumatriptan is effective in 5-ISMN-induced headache in healthy individuals. Methods In a double-blind, randomised, crossover design, 30 healthy volunteers of both sexes received 5-ISMN 60 mg on two separate days, each day followed by oral self-administered placebo or sumatriptan 50 mg. Headache response and accompanying symptoms were registered in a questionnaire by the participants themselves. Results 5-ISMN induced a reproducible headache in all 30 participants. The headache had several migraine-like features in all participants and 20 individuals developed a migraine-like attack. Median peak headache score was 5 on both experimental days ( p = 1.00). There was no reduction, but instead an increase in headache intensity 2 hours after sumatriptan ( p = 0.003). Difference in area under the headache score curve (AUC) 0-4 hours between sumatriptan and placebo was not significant ( p = 0.30). Conclusion 5-ISMN is a very powerful inducer of migraine-like headache in healthy individuals but the headache does not respond to sumatriptan. The model is not useful for future drug testing.
KW - Adult
KW - Cross-Over Studies
KW - Double-Blind Method
KW - Female
KW - Healthy Volunteers
KW - Humans
KW - Isosorbide Dinitrate/analogs & derivatives
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Migraine Disorders/chemically induced
KW - Models, Biological
KW - Serotonin 5-HT1 Receptor Agonists/therapeutic use
KW - Sumatriptan/therapeutic use
KW - Vasodilator Agents/toxicity
U2 - 10.1177/0333102416636095
DO - 10.1177/0333102416636095
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 26924839
VL - 37
SP - 11
EP - 19
JO - Cephalalgia
JF - Cephalalgia
SN - 0800-1952
IS - 1
ER -
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