Production of acute and chronic itch with histamine and contact sensitizers in the mouse and guinea pig

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 285-291

  Laidlaw, Anita ^b   Flecknell, Paul ^c   Rees, Jonathan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Histamine; Itch; Model; Mouse; Pruritus; Scratch

Indexed keywords

1 CHLORO 2,4 DINITROBENZENE; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CAPSAICIN; HISTAMINE; MEPYRAMINE; NALOXONE; HAPTEN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTACT SENSITIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRURITUS; SCRATCHING; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DINITROCHLOROBENZENE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HAPTENS; HISTAMINE; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NALOXONE; PRURITUS;

EID: 0036689851     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0625.2002.110401.x     Document Type: Article

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