Topical capsaicin therapy in humans with hemodialysis-related pruritus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 345, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 192-194

  Weisshaar, Elke ^a,b   Dunker, Nadine ^a   Gollnick, Harald ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alloknesis; Capsaicin; Hemodialysis related pruritus; Histamine; Itch; Topical therapy

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; HISTAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ADULT; ALLOKNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IONTOPHORESIS; LINIMENT; MALE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URTICARIA;

EID: 0038771134     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00511-1     Document Type: Article

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