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Repurposing Botox as a Chronic Pain Reliever (1 of 2)

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Repurposing Botox as a Chronic Pain Reliever (1 of 2)

image: Neurons expressing NK1R, which convey pain to the brain, took up the injected botulinum (bright green) without toxicity in the hindbrain of mice. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 18 July, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Maiarù at University College London in London, UK; and colleagues was titled, "Selective neuronal silencing using synthetic botulinum molecules alleviates chronic pain in mice." view more 

Credit: M. Maiar&ugrave; <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2018)


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