While this group of colorful neurons was grown in a dish from stem cells, in the body neurons like this are responsible for sensing pain. There is a specialized subset of sensory neurons called ...

The nerve cells (neurons) that detect these stimuli are hence called nociceptors. They have an essential role in protecting ...

Cell signaling went in both directions: Immune cells acted on nociceptors and vice versa ... endogenous opioids"—opioids made within the body—"but it was unexpected that there was something ...

We call these sorts of stimuli “noxious” — meaning potentially damaging to the body. The nerve cells (neurons) that detect these stimuli are hence called nociceptors. They have an essential ...