Chronic itch and chronic pain: Analogous mechanisms

aDepartment of Dermatology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, and Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA bDepartments Section of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA cSir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, University of Nottingham, UK *Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 336 716 2901; fax: +1 336 716 7732. E-mail: [email protected] Submitted and accepted April 11, 2007.