Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Increasing Doses of BIBN 4096 BS in Healthy Male and Female Volunteers

The objective of the present study was to obtain information about safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of BIBN 4096 BS after oral administration of increasing doses in healthy male and female volunteers. With respect to pharmacokinetics, it was of particular importance to investigate whether therapeutic plasma levels (for treatment of migraine) could have been achieved by oral administration of a BIBN 4096 BS formulation.