Imaging of central itch modulation in the human brain using positron emission tomography

Pain

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 339-346

  Mochizuki, Hideki ^a   Tashiro, Manabu ^a   Kano, Michiko ^a   Sakurada, Yumiko ^a   Itoh, Masatoshi ^b   Yanai, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Histamine; Itch modulation; Periaqueductal gray matter; Positron emission tomography; Secondary somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; UNPLEASANT SENSATION;

EID: 0141515633     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(03)00249-5     Document Type: Article

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