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New Insight into the Origins of Itch and Pain: How are Itch and Pain Signals Coded and Discriminated by Primary Sensory Neurons?

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This Research Highlight was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81870874), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (BK20170004), and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases (BM2013003).

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  1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases and Institute of Neuroscience, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China

    Yue Hu & Wen-Qi Shan

  2. Institute of Pain Medicine and Special Environmental Medicine, Nantong University, Nantong, 226019, China

    Bin Wu & Tong Liu

  3. College of Life Sciences, Yanan University, Yanan, 716000, China

    Tong Liu

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Hu, Y., Shan, WQ., Wu, B. et al. New Insight into the Origins of Itch and Pain: How are Itch and Pain Signals Coded and Discriminated by Primary Sensory Neurons?. Neurosci. Bull. 37, 575–578 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-021-00643-6

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