Sentences with phrase «stimulate pain receptors»

Various toxins act to stimulate pain receptors in the muscles.

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Because it stimulates the nerve receptors to give the skin a cold and hot sensation as it eases the pain, it might lead to the irritation of the nervous system.

Liem says this dysfunction triggers the release of more of the hormone that stimulates these cells, but this hormone also stimulates a brain receptor related to pain sensitivity.

Dr. Bohn's team has identified several molecules considered to be «biased agonists» because they act at the opioid receptor to stimulate pain relief, but cause less stimulation of the pathway that leads to respiratory suppression.

This is why products containing menthol have names like «Icy Hot» — menthol stimulates both the hot (pain) and cold receptors, sending the brain a really ambiguous signal.

And they found that, in turn, hormonelike substances called prostaglandins were secreted along with other substances that, combined with the dilation of scalp arteries, stimulate the brain's pain receptors.

Heat stimulates the sensory receptors in the skin to decrease transmissions of pain signals to the brain and partially relieve the discomfort.

Yet another pain - relieving drug is THC, the active component in marijuana, which controls pain by stimulating certain receptors in the brain, similar to those that opiates act upon.

As a «neurogenic inflammatory» capsaicin acts as an irritant, stimulating the same receptors that pain does.