They've focused particularly on TRPV1, a receptor found at the endings of peripheral nerves in the skin that's integral ... research suggests that heat itself causes the receptors to become ...

TRPA1, also known as the "wasabi receptor," helps animals detect noxious heat and harmful chemicals. In humans, this receptor can induce eye and skin irritation. In mosquitoes, it influences which ...

In addition to under the skin on the peripheral side ... Medicine who was the first to find hot receptors in the peripheral nervous system sensitive to heat and capsaicin, the chemical that ...

Hotter temperatures may render natural insect repellents less effective against mosquitoes, according to a new study. Hotter temperatures may render natural insect repellents less effective ...

In order to do this, that heat is then transferred into the blood which circulates around the body and starts to rise. Luckily for us we have thermal receptors ... flow to the skin so that our ...

Now, investigators at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have uncovered how heat causes a critical ... They’ve focused particularly on TRPV1, a receptor found at the endings of ...