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 ...

These are cutaneous receptors, located at the endings of peripheral nerves in the skin. But figuring out how to demonstrate how thermosensitive these receptors are has been challenging.

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 ...

prickly heat, eccrine miliaria—and it’s just one of the ways our skin reacts to too much heat, too much sun, and the increasingly punishing summers we’re suffering as climate change raises ...

Once you sweat, the perspiration evaporating moisture cools the skin ... heat affects things like how much and what people eat, is still in its early stages. But the latest studies on receptors ...

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 ...