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Article: CSF glutamate levels in higher in chronic migraine patients with fibromyalgia.
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- Life Science Weekly
- Article date:
- October 26, 2004
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2004 OCT 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cerebrospinal glutamate levels were found in a recent study to be in higher in chronic migraine patients with fibromyalgia than those without the painful musculoskeletal syndrome.
"Both preclinical and clinical data link glutamate to the migraine pathophysiology. Altered plasma, platelets, and cerebrospinal (CSF) glutamate levels have been reported in migraine patients," noted M.F.P. Peres and colleagues.
"Chronic migraine is comorbid with several conditions. It has been recently shown chronic migraine comorbidity with fibromyalgia. The objective of this study was to study cerebrospinal fluid glutamate levels ...