Peripheral pain-sensing neurons: from molecular diversity to functional specialization.
Recent work in Cell Reports by Minett et al. and Yang et al. highlights the complexity of pain pathways and points to new ways of thinking about chronic and disease-related pain.
Aix-Marseille-Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille, UMR 7288, case 907, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France. Electronic address: aziz.moqrich@univ-amu.fr.
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