Supercooling agent icilin blocks a warmth-sensing ion channel trpv3

HIGHLIGHTS

  • who: The cientificWorldJOURNAL et al. from the of Cell Physiology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany have published the research work: Supercooling Agent Icilin Blocks a Warmth-Sensing Ion Channel TRPV3, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 30/Oct/2011
  • what: The authors tried to answer this question by studying the behaviour of TRPV3 as affected by icilin, a cooling-substance introduced by Wei and Seid in 1983 but since then has been reported to activate TRPA1 and TRPM8 , both of which are cold sensors in mammals.

SUMMARY

    Thermosensation is believed to be . . .

     

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