All articles tagged with #nociception
Research shows that tobacco hornworm caterpillars actively adopt a sphinx pose to suppress pain responses, challenging the idea that nociception is purely automatic and hard-wired, with potential implications for pest control and human pain research.
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have identified a novel pain-suppression pathway in fruit flies, regulated by just two neurons named ‘Epione’ or ‘Epi’. The Epi neurons directly sense high temperatures, utilizing a specific ion channel named “Painless.” The molecule that suppresses the pain sensation in adult flies has the opposite role in fly larvae. This breakthrough understanding of pain suppression, or ‘nociception’, may have wider implications for human pain management.