Comments on: Itch-specific neurons discovered in mice http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/08/07/itch-specific-neurons-discovered-in-mice/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: antipodean http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/08/07/itch-specific-neurons-discovered-in-mice/#comment-4486 antipodean Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:00:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/08/07/itch-specific-neurons-discovered-in-mice/#comment-4486 "That debate had already been settled. We've known for a while that there are sensory fibres devoted to itch." I'm sure we were taught the same thing in undergraduate classes more than ten years ago... “That debate had already been settled. We’ve known for a while that there are sensory fibres devoted to itch.”
I’m sure we were taught the same thing in undergraduate classes more than ten years ago…

]]> By: Mo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/08/07/itch-specific-neurons-discovered-in-mice/#comment-4485 Mo Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:46:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/08/07/itch-specific-neurons-discovered-in-mice/#comment-4485 <blockquote>The discovery settles a long-standing debate about whether itch and pain are governed by separate neural systems. </blockquote> That debate had already been settled. We've known for a while that there are sensory fibres devoted to itch. See <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande" rel="nofollow">this excellent New Yorker article by Atul Gawande</a>, from June last year.

The discovery settles a long-standing debate about whether itch and pain are governed by separate neural systems.

That debate had already been settled. We’ve known for a while that there are sensory fibres devoted to itch. See this excellent New Yorker article by Atul Gawande, from June last year.

]]> By: psycho http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/08/07/itch-specific-neurons-discovered-in-mice/#comment-4484 psycho Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:42:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/08/07/itch-specific-neurons-discovered-in-mice/#comment-4484 "nerve poison called bombesin-saporin, which specifically kills neurons that use GRPR" I'd love that for my damn eczema skin. :( “nerve poison called bombesin-saporin, which specifically kills neurons that use GRPR”
I’d love that for my damn eczema skin. :(

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