A tale of two itches. Common features and notable differences in brain activation evoked by cowhage and histamine induced itch

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3611-3623

  Papoiu, Alexandru D P ^a,b   Coghill, Robert C ^a,b   Kraft, Robert A ^a   Wang, Hui ^a,b   Yosipovitch, Gil ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial Spin Labeling; Cerebral representation of itch; Cowhage; Functional MRI; Histamine

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLAUSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUNEUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULA; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL CORTEX; MUCUNA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PULVINAR; PUTAMEN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIN LABELING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUCUNA; PRURITUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855170132     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.099     Document Type: Article

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