New on-switch for pain signaling pathway could lead to safer treatment and relief

Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell ...
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Research Roundup: Replicating a pain transmission pathway and predicting mice behavior

As detailed in a Stanford-led study published in Nature, researchers successfully created a replica of a neuronal pathway responsible for pain transmission in a lab dish called an “assembloid.” The ...
Science Daily

A tiny enzyme may hold the key to safer pain relief

Researchers have uncovered a surprising way the brain switches pain on, revealing that neurons can release an enzyme outside ...
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Key Neural Pain-Sensing Pathway Recreated in a Lab Dish

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...
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Pain pathway in a dish could aid search for new analgesic drugs

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This laboratory model could be used to help explain certain pain syndromes, and ...
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By recreating neural pathway in dish, new research may speed pain treatment

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of humans' most prominent nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body's skin to the ...
The Scientist

The Basics of a Pain Pathway

René Descartes gave a colorful description of the mechanism of pain in the 17th Century: "Particles" of fire set in motion a spot on the skin of the foot, and by means of a "delicate thread" they open ...