Are pruritus and scratching the cough of the skin?

Dermatology

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-5

  Misery, Laurent ^a  

^a BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cough; Itch; Pruritus; Scratching

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CAPSAICIN; HISTAMINE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SEROTONIN 1 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 3 RECEPTOR; SUBSTANCE P; TACHYKININ;

AIRWAY; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; CELL ACTIVATION; COUGHING; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIARRHEA; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; MAST CELL; NERVE FIBER C; NEUROGENIC INFLAMMATION; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SCRATCHING; SKIN IRRITATION; SNEEZING; STRESS; VAGUS NERVE;

COUGH; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEUROGENIC INFLAMMATION; PRURITUS; STRESS;

EID: 36348997163     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109351     Document Type: Review

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