A network of nerves similar to wires runs all through the human body, from the tips of your fingers and toes, through your back inside the spinal cord and up to your brain. Specialized pain receptors ...
When it comes to pain relief, the ingredients desensitize pain receptors in the skin called epidermal nociceptors. (This is why you get a cooling sensation followed by a numbing sensation when ...
Researchers studied genetically modified mice that lack NP2 itch-sensing neurons, to investigate the connection between itch, scratch, and inflammation.