{"id":106203,"date":"2020-04-28T21:25:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T04:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/how-animals-dial-up-the-pain-they-experience-from-certain-stimuli"},"modified":"2020-04-28T21:25:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T04:25:41","slug":"how-animals-dial-up-the-pain-they-experience-from-certain-stimuli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/how-animals-dial-up-the-pain-they-experience-from-certain-stimuli","title":{"rendered":"How animals \u2018dial up\u2019 the pain they experience from certain stimuli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-animals-dial-up-the-pain-they-experience-from-certain-stimuli2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have \u2014 for the first time \u2014 shown how chemical triggers in the nervous system can amplify the pain experienced by mammals in response to certain stimuli.<\/p>\n<p>The pain system probably evolved to alert them to life-threatening dangers. As they approach objects that are extremely hot or cold or are biting them, they experience intense pain \u2014 allowing them to get out of harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p>But in certain diseases, that defence mechanism malfunctions and rather than providing a short, sharp shock \u2014 it produces long-term, chronic pain, seen with some conditions affecting humans such as neuropathies, arthritic pains or migraines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have \u2014 for the first time \u2014 shown how chemical triggers in the nervous system can amplify the pain experienced by mammals in response to certain stimuli. The pain system probably evolved to alert them to life-threatening dangers. As they approach objects that are extremely hot or cold or are biting them, they experience [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}