Functional Brain Imaging Reveals Reconstitution of the Central Nervous Itch Network Upon Rifampicin Therapy in Hepatobiliary Pruritus

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie, DZI Erlangen, Germany.
• ² Department of Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie, DZI Erlangen, Germany; Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
• ³ Department of Neuroradiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
• ⁴ Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie, DZI Erlangen, Germany; Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Zürich, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. andreas.kremer@usz.ch.