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  • Title: A single-fibre EMG study of neuromuscular transmission in migraine patients.
    Author: Domitrz I, Kostera-Pruszczyk A, Kwieciñski H.
    Journal: Cephalalgia; 2005 Oct; 25(10):817-21. PubMed ID: 16162259.
    Abstract:
    It is known that mutations of CACNA1A, which encodes a neuronal P/Q Ca(2+) channel, are present in patients with familial hemiplegic migraine, and possibly in other types of migraine as well. This calcium channel is also involved in neuromuscular transmission. To assess if the single-fibre EMG (SFEMG) method can demonstrate a neuromuscular transmission deficit in migraine, a group of 26 patients with different types of migraine and 20 healthy control subjects were studied. The migraine patients were divided into three groups: 8 patients with migraine without aura (MoA), 12 with migraine with aura excluding visual aura (MA) and 6 with visual aura (VA). A SFEMG of the voluntarily activated extensor digitorum communis muscle was performed. The SFEMG results were normal in the healthy controls and the MoA group (migraine without aura). Slight neuromuscular transmission disturbances were present in 6/12 (50%) of patients with MA and in 1/6 (17%) of patients with VA. We suggest that abnormal neuromuscular transmission detectable by SFEMG may reflect a genetically determined dysfunction of the P/Q Ca(2+) channels in a subgroup of migraineurs with aura.
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