NCT07342296Not yet recruiting
Induction of Migraine Attacks With Aura Using Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide-38
Induction of Migraine Attacks With Aura Using Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide-38: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 15 Jan 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide-38 (PACAP-38) is a key neuropeptide in migraine pathophysiology and treatment. This study investigates whether PACAP-38 administration can trigger aura in individuals with a diagnosis of migraine with aura.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 21 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 8 Jan 2026
- Start date
- 1 Feb 2026
- Primary completion date
- 1 Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Danish Headache Center
- Diseases
- Migraine
- NCT number
- NCT07342296
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 21
- From 1 Feb 2026 to the primary completion date, 1 Dec 2026
- No sites listed in no country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Cardiovascular disease of any kind, including cerebrovascular diseases Hypertension (systolic blood pressure of ≥150 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure of ≥100 mmHg) prior to the start of infusion on the experimental day Hypotension (systolic blood pressure of ≤90 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure of ≤50 mmHg)
- Initiation, discontinuation, or change of dosing of prophylactic medications within 2 months prior to study inclusion
- Intake of acute medications (e.g. analgesics, triptans) within 48 hours of infusion start
Other illness
- Any history of a primary or secondary headache disorder other than migraine without aura, migraine with aura, chronic migraine, and episodic tension-type headache
- History or evidence of any other clinically significant disorder, condition, or disease (except for those outlined above) that, in the opinion of the site investigator, would pose a risk to subject safety or interfere with study evaluation, procedures or completion
Other
- The subject is at risk of self-harm or harm to others as evidenced by past suicidal behavior
- Female subjects of childbearing potential with a positive pregnancy test during any study visit
- Headache of any intensity within 48 hours of infusion start
- Aura within 48 hours of infusion start
Who the study is looking for
- Age 18 to 65 years of age upon entry into screening
- History of migraine with aura for ≥ 12 months according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders 3rd Edition (ICHD-3) criteria
- ≥ 1 monthly day with aura that meets criteria as aura on average across the three months before screening
- Provision of informed consent prior to initiation of any study-specific activities/procedures.
Age in the registry: 18 years to 65 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
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