{"id":178072,"date":"2023-12-11T22:48:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T04:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/unexpected-discovery-about-the-bodys-temperature-sensors-could-lead-to-better-pain-relievers"},"modified":"2023-12-11T22:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T04:48:19","slug":"unexpected-discovery-about-the-bodys-temperature-sensors-could-lead-to-better-pain-relievers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/unexpected-discovery-about-the-bodys-temperature-sensors-could-lead-to-better-pain-relievers","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Discovery About the Body\u2019s Temperature Sensors Could Lead To Better Pain Relievers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unexpected-discovery-about-the-bodys-temperature-sensors-could-lead-to-better-pain-relievers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ability to accurately detect heat and pain is critical to human survival. However, the molecular mechanisms behind how our bodies identify these dangers have long been a mystery to scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-at-buffalo\/\">University at Buffalo<\/a> researchers have unraveled the complex biological phenomena that drive these critical functions. Their research, recently published in the <em><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i><\/em>, has uncovered a previously unknown and completely unexpected \u201csuicidal\u201d reaction in ion channel receptors that explains the complicated mechanisms that underlie sensitivity to temperature and pain.<\/p>\n<p>The research could be applied to the development of more effective pain relievers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to accurately detect heat and pain is critical to human survival. However, the molecular mechanisms behind how our bodies identify these dangers have long been a mystery to scientists. Now, University at Buffalo researchers have unraveled the complex biological phenomena that drive these critical functions. Their research, recently published in the Proceedings of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178072","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}