Pharmacology of Itch

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cowan, Alan (Editor), Yosipovitch, Gil (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 226
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Allergy.; Anesthesiology.; Dermatology.; Pain medicine.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Pain Medicine.; Allergology.

Basic research on the pharmacology of itch has exploded in the wake of two very influential papers that were published in Nature (2007) and Science (2009). Long overlooked as a milder form of pain, itching has rapidly gained a new appreciation in both research and clinical communities because of its...