title: Why does morphine make you itch?
abstract: Opioids such as morphine numb pain but often concomitantly induce itch. Liu et al. (2011) now separate the sensation of itch from opioid-induced analgesia, showing that in a subset of spinal neurons, morphine directly induces itch by signaling through a heteromer of opioid- and itch-mediating G protein-coupled receptors.
authors: Department of Cell Biology, Dorris Neuroscience Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
authors: Takashi
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authors: Miyamoto
authors: Ardem
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authors: Patapoutian