ArticleIBRO reports2018
To scratch an itch: Establishing a mouse model to determine active brain areas involved in acute histaminergic itch.
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- Neuroimaging Characteristics of Pruritus Induced by Eczema: An fMRI Study.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- A Neural Circuit From Paraventricular Nucleus of the Thalamus to the Nucleus Accumbens Mediates Inflammatory Pain in Mice.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Region-specific activation in the accumbens nucleus by itch with modified scratch efficacy in mice - a model-free multivariate analysis.Molecular brain · 2024Article
- Sphingosine 1-Phosphate as Essential Signaling Molecule in Inflammatory Skin Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species Elicit Acute and Chronic Itch via Transient Receptor Potential Canonical 3 Activation in Mice.Neuroscience bulletin · 2022Article
- Cellular, circuit and transcriptional framework for modulation of itch in the central amygdala.eLife · 2021Article
- The Amygdala Network for Processing Itch in Human Brains.Acta dermato-venereologica · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundStrategies to efficiently control itch require a deep understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Several areas in the brain involved in itch and scratching responses have been postulated, but the central mechanisms that drive pruritic responses are still unknown. Histamine is recognized as a major mediator of itch in humans, and has been the most frequently used stimulus as an experimental pruritogen for brain imaging of itch.
objectiveHistaminergic itch
methodsAn acute itch model was established in c-fos-EGFP transgenic mice using ST-1006 and histamine. Coronal brain sections were stained for c-fos immunoreactivity and the forebrain was mapped for density of c-fos + nuclei.
resultsHistamine and ST-1006 significantly increased scratching response in c-fos-EGFP mice compared to vehicle controls. Mapping c-fos immunostained brain sections revealed neuronal activity in the cortex, striatum, hypothalamus, thalamus, amygdala, and the midbrain.
conclusionsHistaminergic itch and selective H4R activation significantly increased the density of c-fos + nuclei in the medial habenula (MHb). Thus, the MHb may be a new target to investigate and subsequently develop novel mechanism-based strategies to treat itch and possibly provide a locus for pharmacological control of pruritus.
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