機械 的 な 痛み で ベース を 触る

Oscar M Arenas1, Ellen A Lumpkin2

  • 1Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California USA.

Cell
|March 7, 2020
PubMed
まとめ

研究者はマウスの機械的な痛みを感知するために重要な新しいイオンチャネルであるTACANを特定しました. この発見は慢性疼痛の管理と オピオイドの危機に対処するための 新しい治療目標を提供します

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