Effects of short-term temperature change in the innocuous range on histaminergic and non-histaminergic acute itch

Zoe Lewis, David N. George, Fiona Cowdell, Henning Holle*

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    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)188-195
    Number of pages8
    JournalActa Dermato-Venereologica
    Volume99
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - Feb 2019

    Funding

    This work was supported by a grant from the British Skin Foundation to HH and FC (project number: 7011s). We are grateful to Dr Ethan Lerner (Harvard Medical School) for kindly providing the cowhage spicules and Prof Gil Yosipovitch (University of Miami) for helpful comments on an earlier version of this manuscript.

    Keywords

    • Histamine
    • Pruritus
    • Sensory thresholds
    • Skin temperature

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