Ascending Single Doses of Erenumab (AMG 334) in Healthy Adults and Migraine Patients

An adverse event (AE) is defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical trial participant. The event does not necessarily have a causal relationship with study treatment. The definition of adverse events includes worsening of a pre-existing medical condition. Laboratory value changes that require treatment or adjustment in current therapy are considered adverse events. Teatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) are those assessed by the investigator as being possibly related to study drug. A serious adverse event is defined as an adverse event that meets at least 1 of the following serious criteria: fatal life-threatening (places the subject at immediate risk of death) requires in-patient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization results in persistent or significant disability/incapacity congenital anomaly/birth defect other medically important serious event.

Participants who had a negative or no result at baseline and were antibody positive postbaseline. Blood samples were first tested for anti-erenumab binding antibodies, samples testing positive for binding antibodies were also tested for neutralizing antibodies.

Inhibition of capsaicin-induced dermal blood flow (DBF) by erenumab was used to measure calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor antagonism. Capsaicin was applied at 2 sites on the volar surface of the participants' left or right forearms and a control mixture was applied to 1 site on the volar surface of either the participants' left or right forearm. Dermal blood flow was assessed by laser Doppler perfusion imaging and was done immediately before ('baseline') and 0.5 hours post-capsaicin on the surface of these 3 sites. Data reported are the least square geometric mean ratios for the post-capsaicin dermal blood flow to pre-capsaicin dermal blood flow. According to the protocol, not all cohorts had dermal blood flow measurements at all time points.