Hot and spicy pain signals get blocked in naked mole-rats
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Naked mole-rats have a version of a pain-sensing protein that doesn’t respond to hot stimuli, such as the capsaicin molecule found in spicy peppers.
Thomas Park/Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Naked mole-rats have a version of a pain-sensing protein that doesn’t respond to hot stimuli, such as the capsaicin molecule found in spicy peppers.
Thomas Park/Univ. of Illinois at Chicago