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Discover LudwigThe phrase "affects the trigeminal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to medical or neurological discussions, particularly when describing how something influences the trigeminal nerve or its functions.
Example: "The condition affects the trigeminal, leading to symptoms such as facial pain and discomfort."
Alternatives: "impacts the trigeminal nerve" or "influences the trigeminal system."
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This condition affects the trigeminal nerve.
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Trichlorethylene (a solvent) and stilbamidine (a drug) cause numbness of the face by affecting the trigeminal nerve.
And the change of BDNF level and neurotrophic-induced neural plasticity could affect the trigeminal pain-related evoked responses and cortical pain processing [29].
Conditions affecting the trigeminal nerve (V) include trigeminal neuralgia, cluster headache, and trigeminal zoster.
This category of patient should be considered at risk, as organic neurological pathologies could be present and yet not directly affect the trigeminal system, at least in the early stages of the disease.
For instance, an isolated dysfunction of VII and VIII cranial nerves may indicate an acoustic neuroma or damage from surgical resection of the lesion, while the paresis of cranial nerves III, IV, and VI may indicate an aneurysm or cavernous sinus pathology that can also affect the trigeminal nerve.
A single lesion affecting the sensory trigeminal pathway is most often suspected, but rarely observed.
We note that we did not strive for a specific model such as migraine headache but a robust model of craniofacial pain including TRPV1 activation affecting the first trigeminal branch.
In addition, pain in SUNCT is maximal in the ophthalmic division, whereas trigeminal neuralgia most commonly affects the maxillary and/or mandibular divisions of the trigeminal nerve.
According to the current theory that RPON may be initiated by an inflammatory process that affects the oculomotor nerve and irritates the trigeminal sensory fibers, triggering headaches, as sensory fibers of the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve enter the oculomotor nerve [14, 15].
If sumatriptan affects the phosphatases only in activated trigeminal neurons, it could explain the apparent lack of effect in this study, with normal subjects.
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