Antimicrobial compounds produced by microorganisms have been used for decades in
poultry diets to increase performance and decrease morbidity particularly in broiler chickens …

Millions of people worldwide suffer from neuropathic pain as a result of damage to or
dysfunction of the nervous system under various disease conditions. Development of …

Inflammatory pain, such as arthritis pain, is a growing health problem. Inflammatory pain is
generally treated with opioids and cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors, but both are limited by …

Snakes possess a unique sensory system for detecting infrared radiation, enabling them to
generate a 'thermal image'of predators or prey. Infrared signals are initially received by the …

Clinical management of chronic pain after nerve injury (neuropathic pain) and tumor
invasion (cancer pain) is a real challenge due to our limited understanding of the cellular …

The upper respiratory tract is continually assaulted with harmful dusts and xenobiotics
carried on the incoming airstream. Detection of such irritants by the trigeminal nerve evokes …

Some plant-based diets lower the cardiometabolic risks and prevalence of hypertension.
New evidence implies a role for the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) cation …

Toxins have evolved to target regions of membrane ion channels that underlie ligand
binding, gating, or ion permeation, and have thus served as invaluable tools for probing …

Somatosensory neurons detect environmental stimuli, converting external cues into neural
activity that is relayed first to second-order neurons in the spinal cord. The detection of cold …

In the United States, cancer is the second most common cause of death and it is expected
that about 562,340 Americans will have died of cancer in 2009. Bone cancer pain is …