J. Puente, M. Jaque, C. Carrasco
Nov 1, 2008
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Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain
Abstract
Objective.— To study the effect of various triptan‐like drugs, eg, avitriptan, naratriptan, and sumatriptan, as well as the benzopyran alnitidan, on the natural killer cell (NKC) activity of peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples and highly purified NKC (HPNKC) preparations. We also examined the possible role of these agents as immunomodulators by studying their effect upon the in vitro secretion of pro‐matrix metalloproteinase‐9 (pMMP‐9) from whole blood and purified neutrophils samples.