Differences in pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide and calcitonin gene-related peptide release in the trigeminovascular system.
Jacob Carl Alexander EdvinssonAnne-Sofie GrellKarin WarfvingeMajid SheykhzadeLars EdvinssonKristian Agmund HaanesPublished in: Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache (2020)
Unlike CGRP, PACAP is only released within the trigeminal ganglion. This raises the question of whether a migraine therapy aimed at preventing peripheral PACAP signalling would be as successful as the CGRP signalling targeted treatments.