Scientists have found a reason why some people never seem to get warm while others never seem to feel the cold: some nerve cell receptors deep in the body are stimulated by signals other than ...

Researchers create a cannabis-derived compound that relieves pain without the risk of addiction or mind-altering effects.

A bundle of neurones is called a nerve. There are three main types of ... Information from receptors passes along neurones, as electrical impulses to co-ordinators such as the central nervous ...

A UK study has found that nerve fibers expressing the capsaicin receptor TRPV1 (transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1) are more numerous in colonic tissue from patients with IBS than in ...

Following nerve injury, TRPM8 expression was increased ... mediated and to rely on Group II/III metabotropic glutamate receptors (inhibitors of nociceptive responses). By contrast, results were ...

Similar effects are observed with opioid peptides in the brain, which contribute to the pain relief produced by another trophic protein, brain-derived nerve growth factor. [11] The exact receptor ...

A new compound provides the pain-relieving properties of cannabis - without the mind-bending side effects. It may be an ...