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5 mars 2015
- doi: 10.58079/tct7
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jenshermanroberts, « Scratching “The Itch Infalable”: Johanna St. John’s Anti-Itch Cure », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tct7
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By Jennifer Sherman Roberts Physical or metaphorical, itches are funny things. "Just a little to the left" (Image credit: Vannie via Wikimedia Commons) Physical itches, as Atul Gawande points out, may well have been a response that evolved to alert us to insects and poisonous toxins. Previously thought to be triggered by the same nerve cells that control the sensation of pain, researchers have discovered that itching actually has its own special neural pathway, hence the biologically distin...