Neuroscientists Identify Cold-Sensing Receptor in Mice
Neuroscientists at the University of Michigan have actually recognized a thermoreceptor that moderates cold picking up in somatosensory nerve cells.
GluK2 KO mice are malfunctioning in cold picking up. Image credit: Cai et al10.1038/ s41593-024-01585-8.
"The field began revealing these temperature level sensing units over twenty years earlier, with the discovery of a heat-sensing protein called TRPV1," stated University of Michigan's Professor Shawn Xu.
"Various research studies have actually discovered the proteins that notice hot, warm, even cool temperature levels-- however we've been not able to validate what senses temperature levels listed below about 15 degrees Celsius (60 degrees Fahrenheit)."
In 2019, researchers found the very first cold-sensing receptor protein in Caenorhabditis...
