Spinothalamic lamina I neurons selectively sensitive to histamine: A central neural pathway for itch

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 72-77

  Andrew, D ^a   Craig, A D ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; CATS; HISTAMINE; IONTOPHORESIS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MUSTARD PLANT; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT OILS; PRURITUS; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0035155197     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/82924     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Pruritis after epidural morphine
2. Itching as a side-effect of epidural morphine
3. Itching after epidural and spinal opiates
4. Neural mechanisms involved in itch, "itchy skin", and tickle sensations
5. Anterior cordotomy
6. Touch and surgical division of the anterior quadrant of the spinal cord
7. Response to an itch-producing substance in cat. II. Cutaneous receptor populations with unmyelinated axons
8. Experiments relating to the itch sensation, its peripheral mechanism, and central pathways
9. Specific C-receptors for itch in human skin
10. Properties of transdermal histamine iontophoresis: Differential effects of season, gender, and body region
11. Encoding of burning pain from capsaicin-treated human skin in two categories of unmyelinated nerve fibres
12. Neurogenic hyperalgesia: Psychophysical studies on underlying mechanisms
13. Psychophysical studies of the itch sensation and itchy skin ("allokinesis") produced by intracutaneous injection of histamine
14. Discharge patterns of human C-fibers induced by itching and burning stimuli
15. The magnitude and duration of itch produced by intracutaneous injections of histamine
16. Superficial dorsal horn neurons identified by intracutaneous histamine: Chemonociceptive responses and modulation by morphine
17. Responses of rat spinal dorsal horn neurons to intracutaneous microinjection of histamine, capsaicin, and other irritants
18. Itching for an explanation
19. Spinothalamic lumbosacral lamina I cells responsive to skin and muscle stimulation in the cat
20. Morphine enhances the activity of thermoreceptive cold-specific lamina I spinothalamic tract neurons in the cat
21. Effects of systemic morphine on lamina I spinothalamic tract neurons in the cat
22. Nociceptive and thermoreceptive lamina I neurons are anatomically distinct
23. The thermal grill illusion: Unmasking the burn of cold pain
24. Does neurogenic inflammation alter the sensitivity of unmyelinated nociceptors in the rat?
25. Novel classes of responsive and unresponsive C-nociceptors in human skin
26. Spatial summation of chemical irritation and itch produced by topical application of capsaicin
27. Spinal distribution of ascending lamina I axons anterogradely labeled with Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin (PHA-L) in the cat
28. Organization of cortical and subcortical projections to anterior cingulate cortex in the cat
29. Cingulate gyrus of the cat receives projection fibers from the thalamic region ventral to the ventral border of the ventrobasal complex
30. Urge to scratch represented in the human cerebral cortex during itch
31. Morphological classes of spinothalamic lamina I neurons in the cat