Instead of Using Opioids, Activating Immune Cells to Fight Pain (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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Pain is difficult to treat, and as problems with opioids continue to mount around the country, scientists have been working to find new pain-treatment strategies. And pain researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that one strategy that may work involves targeting cellular receptors that are located on immune cells, rather than on the nerve cells that transmit pain signals. Jim Dryden has more...

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