Neuropathic pain, a chronic condition resulting from nervous system lesions or diseases, remains a formidable clinical challenge due to its complex and ...

Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising way the brain switches pain on, revealing that neurons can release an enzyme outside ...

Scientists from Tulane University and The University of Texas at Dallas have discovered a new way that nerve cells communicate – by releasing an enzyme outside the cell that switches on pain signaling ...

Tulane researchers discovered a new pain signaling mechanism that could lead to safer, more effective treatments and reshape ...

Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell signaling mechanism that could transform our understanding of pain and lead ...

New research reveals that neurons release a little-understood extracellular kinase called VLK to strengthen synaptic ...

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...