Sentences with phrase «send itch signals»

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Chen, a professor of anesthesiology, and his colleagues generated mice in which a protein called BRAF always is active and continually sends signals inside itch neurons.

But when it comes to sending signals toward your brain through your spinal cord, itch and mild pain can go through the same set of spinal cord neurons, researchers report February 22 in Neuron.

The clinical name for itchy skin in dogs is pruritus, which occurs when chemical reactions at the epidermis level irritate nerves and send «itch» signals to the dog's brain.