Re: [CH] Chili[sic] Pepper Cocktail Blunts Pain
KnoxBill (knoxbill@comcast.net)
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:59:07 -0400
Riley J. McIntire wrote:
More on capsaicin selectively opening channels on pain neurons.
"Toward that end, he says, the team is searching for a molecule similar
to capsaicin "that opens the TRPV1 channels but doesn't have as much of
an irritant effect."
but doc, to paraphrase wavy gravy, "the irritant effect is the point"...
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