Pain and itch: insights into the neural circuits of aversive somatosensation in health and disease

SE Ross - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
… insensitivity to pain, who feel neither pain nor itch, and rarely … the utility of acute pain and
itch, these sensations ruin one's … prolonged pain or itch can result in changes in neural circuitry

[HTML][HTML] Central circuit mechanisms of itch

XJ Chen, YG Sun - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
… In this review, we summarize the progress in elucidating the neural circuit mechanism of itch
… brain structures and neural networks could be recruited by both itch and pain, population …

A central neural circuit for itch sensation

D Mu, J Deng, KF Liu, ZY Wu, YF Shi, WM Guo… - Science, 2017 - science.org
itch-selective molecules and neurons. However, we know very little about the brain circuits
underlying itch … Thus, our studies reveal a central neural circuit that is critical for itch signal …

[HTML][HTML] Spinal circuits transmitting mechanical pain and itch

B Duan, L Cheng, Q Ma - Neuroscience bulletin, 2018 - Springer
… cause pain or itch evoked by innocuous mechanical stimuli, a hallmark symptom for many
chronic pain or itch … The specificity hypothesis suggests the existence of specific neural circuits

Neural mechanisms of itch

M Lay, X Dong - Annual review of neuroscience, 2020 - annualreviews.org
neuronal circuits responsible for these modalities. Recently, more scientists have begun to
appreciate that many pain- and touch-sensing neurons and circuits are also responsible for …

Spinal circuits for touch, pain, and itch

SC Koch, D Acton, M Goulding - Annual review of physiology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
… GRP + interneurons in laminae I–II are also implicated in itch transmission, although the
nature of the GRP–GRPR neuron circuit is still the subject of much debate. GRP-expressing …

[PDF][PDF] Neural circuits of pain and itch processing involved in anterior cingulate cortex

ZG He, DY Zhang, SG Liu, L Feng, MH Feng… - Int J Clin Exp …, 2016 - e-century.us
… processing of pain has some similarities to that of itch [11-14]. In addition, neuro… neural
circuits of pain and itch processing in ACC, and the glutaminergic and opioidergic circuits

[HTML][HTML] Circuit mechanisms of itch in the brain

D Mu, YG Sun - Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2022 - Elsevier
Neural circuits underlying different components of itch. VB thalamus, Po, and S1 (cyan) are
involved in the processing of the sensory component of itch. PBN, … itch and pain modulation. …

Itch and pain

M Schmelz - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
… It is still unclear how the neuronal circuits manage to separate out the itch signal when it is
at least partly generated by those fibers which would normally suppress the itch sensation (ie …

Representation and control of pain and itch by distinct prefrontal neural ensembles

Q Pan, SS Guo, M Chen, XY Su, ZL Gao, Q Wang… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
… Ca 2+ imaging, activity-dependent labeling with targeted recombination in active populations
(TRAP), optogenetic/chemogenetic manipulations, and virus-mediated circuit tracing, we …