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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Ramezani, Mahdia | Komaki, Alirezaa | Eftekharian, Mohammad Mahdia | Mazdeh, Mehrdokhta | Ghafouri-Fard, Soudehb; *
Affiliations: [a] Neurophysiology Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran | [b] Department of Medical Genetics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard, Department of Medical Genetics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Tel./Fax: +98 2123872572; E-mail: s.ghafourifard@sbmu.ac.ir.
Abstract: Migraine is a common disorder which is placed among the top ten reasons of years lived with disability. Cytokines are among the molecules that contribute in the pathophysiology of migraine. In the current study, we evaluated expression levels of IL-6 coding gene in the peripheral blood of 120 migraine patients (54 migraine without aura and 66 migraine with aura patients) and 40 healthy subjects. No significant difference was detected in expression of IL-6 between total migraine patients and healthy controls (Posterior beta = 0.253, P value = 0.199). The interaction effect between gender and group was significant (Posterior beta =-1.274, P value = 0.011), therefore, we conducted subgroup analysis within gender group. Such analysis revealed that while expression of this gene is not different between male patients and male controls (Posterior beta =-0.371, P value > 0.999), it was significantly over-expressed in female patients compared with female controls (Posterior beta = 0.86, P= 0.002). Expression of IL-6 was significantly higher in patients with aura compared with controls (Posterior beta = 0.63, adjusted P value = 0.019). However, expression of this cytokine coding gene was not different between patients without aura and healthy subjects (Posterior beta = 0.193, adjusted P value = 0.281). Therefore, IL-6 might be involved in the pathophysiology of migraine among females and migraine with aura among both sexes.
Keywords: Migraine, aura, IL-6, expression
DOI: 10.3233/HAB-210442
Journal: Human Antibodies, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 203-207, 2021
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