Cooling the Skin: Understanding a Specific Cutaneous Thermosensation

A patient recently presented with long-standing severe itching originating from lichen sclerosus et atrophicus at the vulva area. We successively treated her using a topical formulation of TRPM8 agonist which produces a cooling sensation. The cooling sensation, an afferent sensory perception in vari...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Park, Bomi, Kim, Seong Jin
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4390739/