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XB-ART-14141
Neuron 1998 Sep 01;213:531-43. doi: 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80564-4.
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The cloned capsaicin receptor integrates multiple pain-producing stimuli.

Tominaga M , Caterina MJ , Malmberg AB , Rosen TA , Gilbert H , Skinner K , Raumann BE , Basbaum AI , Julius D .


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Capsaicin, the main pungent ingredient in "hot" chili peppers, elicits buming pain by activating specific (vanilloid) receptors on sensory nerve endings. The cloned vanilloid receptor (VR1) is a cation channel that is also activated by noxious heat. Here, analysis of heat-evoked single channel currents in excised membrane patches suggests that heat gates VR1 directly. We also show that protons decrease the temperature threshold for VR1 activation such that even moderately acidic conditions (pH < or = 5.9) activate VR1 at room temperature. VR1 can therefore be viewed as a molecular integrator of chemical and physical stimuli that elicit pain. Immunocytochemical analysis indicates that the receptor is located in a neurochemically heterogeneous population of small diameter primary afferent fibers. A role for VR1 in injury-induced hypersensitivity at the level of the sensory neuron is presented.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis

References :
Mantyh, Hot peppers and pain. 1998, Pubmed