Third Special Issue on Mechanisms of Pain and Itch

We have published two special issues on pain and itch in Neuroscience Bulletin that cover their peripheral,central,and glial mechanisms[1,2],The first special was published in 2012[1],highlighting several topics such as Toll-like receptors,capsaicin receptor TRPVI,interactionof u-and 8-opioid receptors,and population coding of somatic sensations.In 2018,we published the second special issue[2],which covered a wide breath of research,including molecular and functional characterization of primary sensory neurons,neurocircuits of pain and itch,Na+channel expression in human sensory neurons,modulation ofpainand itch byspinal glia,infection,sex dimorphisms inpain。