Phototherapy Reduces the Number of Epidermal and CGRP-positive Dermal Nerve Fibres

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-115

  Wallengren, Joanna ^a   Sundler, Frank ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CGRP; Itch; Nerve fibres; PGP 9.5; Phototherapy; Vanilloid receptor

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CAPSAICIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROGENIC INFLAMMATION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NUMMULAR DERMATITIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PUNCH BIOPSY; PUVA; RADIATION DOSE; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN NERVE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRURITUS; REFERENCE VALUES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1942443917     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015550310022899     Document Type: Article

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