Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 4:06 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 4:06 AM
NCT ID:
NCT03156920
Brief Summary:
To develop a pragmatic migraine model the investigators will induce headache in healthy volunteers with a phosphodiesterase inhibitor (cilostazol). The participants will be pre-treated with sumatriptan. If the headache responds to sumatriptan, the model can be used to test new drug candidates.
Detailed Description:
There remains a great need for more effective anti-migraine drugs with fewer side effects. Human experimental models are valuable in early phase development of new anti-migraine drugs but useful models have not yet been developed. The investigators' group has shown that Cilostazol, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor induce headache/migraine in both healthy volunteers and in patients with migraine without aura (MO).
To validate cilostazol as a model, the headache must respond to specific migraine treatment with sumatriptan.
Hypothesis: Cilostazol induces a migraine-like headache in healthy subjects. The induced headache can be pre-treated with a specific anti-migraine drug; sumatriptan.
Aim: Developing a pragmatic and valid model for the testing of new anti-migraine drugs.
Study:
NCT03156920
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03156920