Sensory Qualities Point to Different Structural and Functional Skin Patterns in Chronic Pruritus Patients. A Translational Explorative Study

• Main Authors: Johanna Hidding (Author), Konstantin Agelopoulos (Author), Manuel P. Pereira (Author), Heike Conrad (Author), Hanns Hatt (Author), Tobias Lotts (Author), Nani Osada (Author), Esther Pogatzki-Zahn (Author), Martin Schmelz (Author), Sonja Ständer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Medical Journals Sweden, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chronic pruritus (CP) is often accompanied by paresthetic sensations like warmth, burning and stinging. The aim of this study was to analyze, whether divergent sensations are linked to structural and functional skin alterations in clinically diagnosed CP patients. Clinical responses to capsaicin, hi...