Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified an interesting potential future therapeutic target in primary headache disorders. They have found increased amounts of a gene associated with cluster headache, MERTK, and its ligand Gal-3, in tissue from cluster headache patients. Their study is published in the Journal of Headache and Pain.

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, Jacob Ca Edvinsson , Karolinska Institutet , Carmine Belin , Jacob Edvinsson , Felicia Jennysdotter Olofsg , Lars Edvinsson , Andrea Carmine Belin , International Consortium For Cluster Headache Genetics , Lund University , Department Of Neuroscience , Cluster Headache , Caroline Ran , International Consortium , Cluster Headache Genetics ,