Thanks to this less efficient, albeit still functioning, receptor, the naked mole rat still winds up with an adequate nervous system, but with fewer pain nerve cells. (sciencemag.org)
An injury to a nerve creates static, but pain nerves don't know how to interpret static any more than those pagers knew how to interpret it. (discovermagazine.com)
Neuropathic pain isn't caused by a direct injury, like arthritis or a broken bone, that stimulates normal pain nerves — that's nociceptive pain. (discovermagazine.com)