But when it comes to sending signals toward your brain through your spinal cord, itch and mild
pain can
go through the same set of spinal cord
neurons, researchers report February 22 in
Neuron.
Since blood samples are taken and frozen with many clinical trials, this allows them «almost a bit of a time machine» to
go back and explore questions around
pain or neuropathy to run tests on
neurons created from blood samples of patients taken in past clinical trials where responses and outcomes have already been recorded.»