Opiate and H1 antagonist effects on histamine induced pruritus and alloknesis

Pain

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 239-243

  Heyer, G ^a   Dotzer, M ^a   Diepgen, T L ^a   Handwerker, H O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alloknesis; Opiate antagonist; Pruritus

Indexed keywords

CETIRIZINE; HISTAMINE; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; NALTREXONE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAST CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HISTAMINE; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; PRURITUS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030775961     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(97)00098-5     Document Type: Article

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