{"id":177374,"date":"2023-12-04T08:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-learn-from-creepy-skin-parasites-how-to-suppress-pain"},"modified":"2023-12-04T08:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:23:33","slug":"scientists-learn-from-creepy-skin-parasites-how-to-suppress-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-learn-from-creepy-skin-parasites-how-to-suppress-pain","title":{"rendered":"Scientists learn from creepy skin parasites how to suppress pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-learn-from-creepy-skin-parasites-how-to-suppress-pain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Painless lesions investigated in mice<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Now, for the first time, researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/news.osu.edu\/harnessing-the-power-of-a-parasite-that-can-stop-pain\" title=\"have looked\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">have looked<\/a> into the lesions on mouse skin to assess if there are any metabolic signalling pathways that are responsible for thwarting pain. The aim is to hopefully use this mechanism to help people suffering from debilitating pain through the development of non-narcotic pain medications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one knows why these lesions are painless \u2013 but it has been thought that the parasite somehow manipulates the host physiological system,\u201d said Abhay Satoskar, senior author of the study and professor of pathology in The Ohio State University College of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painless lesions investigated in mice Now, for the first time, researchers have looked into the lesions on mouse skin to assess if there are any metabolic signalling pathways that are responsible for thwarting pain. The aim is to hopefully use this mechanism to help people suffering from debilitating pain through the development of non-narcotic pain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177374","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}