The present invention provides, among other things, methods of treating pruritic or inflammatory
skin diseases or disorders, or pruritus associated with a
disease or disorder, with an anti-OSMRβ
antibody, including methods of treating pruritus, associated with
atopic dermatitis, chronic
kidney disease-associated pruritus, uremic pruritus or
prurigo nodularis, chronic idiopathic pruritus, chronic idiopathic urticaria, chronic spontaneous urticaria, cutaneous
amyloidosis,
lichen simplex chronicus, plaque
psoriasis, lichens planus, inflammatory
ichthyosis, mastocytosis and bullous pemphigoid, comprising a step of administering to a subject in need of treatment an anti-OSMRβ
antibody at a therapeutically effective
dose and an administration interval for a
treatment period sufficient to improve, stabilize or reduce one or more symptoms of the
disease or disorder relative to a control.