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Model of Chronic Itch in Aged Mice: Beneficial Effects of Drugs Affecting Descending Modulatory Systems [PDF]

open access: yesActa Dermato-Venereologica
Pruritus in the elderly, particularly those cases without skin dryness or other identifiable causes, makes treatment challenging due to the lack of evidence regarding the therapeutic effects of antipruritics. This study proposes an age-related alloknesis
Go Kojima   +6 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Antipruritic Effect of Topical Acetaminophen Gel in Histaminergic and Non-histaminergic Itch Provocation: A Double-blind, Vehicle-controlled Pilot Study [PDF]

open access: yesActa Dermato-Venereologica, 2022
There is a need for new topical antipruritics that are effective on many types of itch. This study examined the antipruritic efficacy of a new formulation of topical acetaminophen.
Leigh A. Nattkemper   +10 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Improvement in Irretractable Pruritus With Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Embolization: From MAID to a New Lease on Life [PDF]

open access: yesCase Reports in Hepatology
Pruritus is a common, often debilitating symptom of liver disease. While most commonly seen in the setting of cholestasis and biliary obstruction, intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (PSSs) may also present with pruritus. The pathophysiology of intractable
Amitesh Bagha   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Combination of Low-dose Nalbuphine and Morphine in Patient-controlled Analgesia Decreases Incidence of Opioid-related Side Effects

open access: yesJournal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2009
The addition of ultra-low-dose naloxone to patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with morphine reduces opioid-related side effects. Nalbuphine, a mixed opioid agonist–antagonist, may be able to attenuate opioid-related side effects.
Yu-Chang Yeh   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A clinical continuum of aquagenic pruritus, aquadynia, and aquagenic urticaria responsive to β-blockers [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global
β-Blockers have shown promising effects in preventing aquagenic pruritus, but they may also have a role in preventing aquagenic urticaria and aquadynia.
Evelien M. Hutten, MD   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Natural history of liver disease in a large international cohort of children with Alagille syndrome: Results from the GALA study

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Natural history of liver disease in a large international cohort of children with Alagille syndrome: Results from the GALA study. Abstract Background and Aims Alagille syndrome (ALGS) is a multisystem disorder, characterized by cholestasis. Existing outcome data are largely derived from tertiary centers, and real‐world data are lacking.
Shannon M. Vandriel   +93 more
wiley   +1 more source

AASLD practice guidance on drug, herbal, and dietary supplement–induced liver injury

open access: yes, 2022
Hepatology, EarlyView.
Robert J. Fontana   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Androgenic anabolic steroid-induced liver injury: two case reports assessed for causality by the updated Roussel Uclaf Causality Assessment Method (RUCAM) score and a comprehensive review of the literature

open access: yesBMJ Open Gastroenterology, 2020
Background Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) usage is widespread and increasing. AAS drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is recognised but its clinical course and management is poorly described.
Mark R Thursz   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A New Generation of Treatments for Itch

open access: yesActa Dermato-Venereologica, 2020
For decades, antihistamines have been the mainstay of treatment for chronic pruritus, yet they often only work by making patients drowsy and forgetful of their itch.
Emilie Fowler, Gil Yosipovitch
doaj   +1 more source

Antipruritic Effect of Nalbuphine, a Kappa Opioid Receptor Agonist, in Mice: A Pan Antipruritic [PDF]

open access: yesMolecules, 2021
Antipruritic effects of kappa opioid receptor (KOR) agonists have been shown in rodent models of acute and chronic scratching (itchlike behavior). Three KOR agonists, nalfurafine, difelikefalin, and nalbuphine, are in clinical studies for antipruritic effects in chronic itch of systemic and skin diseases.
Inan, Saadet, Dun, Nae, Cowan, Alan
openaire   +3 more sources

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