Topically applied aspirin rapidly decreases histamine-induced itch

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 46-48

  Yosipovitch, Gil ^a,b   Ademola, John ^a   Lui, Ping ^a   Amin, Smita ^a   Maibach, Howard I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Beilinson Campus ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

thermal sensory analyzer; visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HISTAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ASPIRIN; FEMALE; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MALE; PRURITUS;

EID: 0031025053     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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