Birds are one type of animal that have adapted to not feel the effects of spicy foods that humans often do.

Whether you love or hate the burn, is spicy food food for your body? Experts discuss how spicy food affects the body and the ...

A heat receptor therapy may aid in dry eye relief. Additionally, medication waste has more than tripled since 2016.

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Capsaicin from the pepper activates a specific receptor in your mouth called TRPV1. These are the same receptors that would signal danger if you started pouring boiling water into your mouth.

Introduction: The contribution of Cannabinoid type 1 receptor (CB1) in mitochondrial energy transduction mechanisms and mitochondrial activities awaits deeper investigations. Our study aims to assess ...

and TRPV1 knockouts to demonstrate that nociceptor blocking can reduce airway inflammation in their experimental setup. The authors further identify the presence of Gfra3 on the JNC neurons, a ...

Similarly, ablating TRPV1-expressing nociceptor neurons also normalized lung ... We pinpointed alveolar macrophages as the source of artemin, which, expressing aryl hydrocarbon receptors, responded to ...

They also proposed a new immunotherapy strategy based on receptor antagonism. Their study was published in Nature Immunology on October 2. Intriguingly, type 1 innate lymphoid cells (ILC1s), which ...