Pain-induced skin autoimmunity

ISSN
1001-0602
Date Issued
2014-09
Author(s)
Neuhuber, Winfried
Flügel, Alexander
DOI
10.1038/cr.2014.80
Abstract
A recent paper published in Nature reports sensory nerve fibers in the skin that give local immune cells important instructions for the organization of an immune response; in this particular case the cooperation between the nervous and immune systems had disastrous consequences, namely an auto-destruction of the skin.