Event Information:

• Fri

  10

  May

  2019

  NCS 2019 "Itch Neurons and their Receptors"

  12:00 PMAula Magna, Medicine Faculty, Clinic Campus

  Mark A. Hoon, PhD | National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA

  Abstract
  The Hoon lab is part of the intramural program of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. The lab has a general interest in determining the molecular and cellular basis for somatosensory stimulation. They have employed molecular and molecular neuroscience genetic techniques to functionally dissect signaling pathways and defined neurons involved in nociception, thermosensation and itch. The seminar will present work from the lab over the last few years on the delineation of key signaling components and cell involved in itch in mice and potential translatable approaches to alleviate chronic itch.