The Effect of Sumatriptan and Placebo on Cilostazol Induced Headache

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To develop a pragmatic migraine model the investigators will induce headache in healthy volunteers and in patients with migraine without aura with a phosphodiesterase inhibitor (cilostazol). If the headache responds to sumatriptan, the model can be used to test new drug candidates.

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 this model, the headache must respond to specific migraine treatment with sumatriptan. Hypothesis: Cilostazol induces a migraine-like headache in both healthy subjects and in MO-patients and induced headache responds to a specific anti migraine drug; sumatriptan. Aim: Developing a pragmatic and valid model for the testing of new anti-migraine drugs.

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