I intend to replace my head with Richard Nixon's, too.
Posted on 11/28/2014 7:07:17 AM PST by shove_it
In research published in the medical journal Brain, Saint Louis University researcher Daniela Salvemini, Ph.D. and colleagues within SLU, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other academic institutions have discovered a way to block a pain pathway in animal models of chronic neuropathic pain including pain caused by chemotherapeutic agents and bone cancer pain suggesting a promising new approach to pain relief.
The scientific efforts led by Salvemini, who is professor of pharmacological and physiological sciences at SLU, demonstrated that turning on a receptor in the brain and spinal cord counteracts chronic nerve pain in male and female rodents. Activating the A3 receptor -- either by its native chemical stimulator, the small molecule adenosine, or by powerful synthetic small molecule drugs invented at the NIH -- prevents or reverses pain that develops slowly from nerve damage without causing analgesic tolerance or intrinsic reward (unlike opioids)...
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Soon to be used on the battlefield to create zombie soldiers?
NO Brain... NO Pain!!!
Nice. But isn’t this a little like putting a piece of electrical tape over your ‘check engine light’?
A lot of Michigan Medical Marijuana users claim the pot is for pain. One guy said his thumb hurt a lot and he couldn’t work. I told to stick his thumb in his ass and see if it helped. I really did. He was speechless.
Good news for KenyanKare death panels.
We can switch off Obama?
Maybe - but with some diseases there’s no need to check the engine. There’s no way to fix the engine.
I intend to replace my head with Richard Nixon's, too.
Depends, as you allude to pain is sometimes useful. In chronic cases its extremely debilitating and the treatment for pain is worse than the disease. For people with cancer, severe back injury and some of the other problems this could but huge.
Some people have problems where their brain registers pain but there isn’t an underlying cause.
Scary, yet painless — nice.
That’s a beautiful graphic, Laz!
p.s.
Also fair and balanced.
Or to temporarily get rid of the pain until the source of the pain is fixed.
If I have an excruciating toothache and I can’t see the dentist until the next day I would not mind getting rid of the pain while I’m waiting.
Or say, childbirth.
If the process of blocking pain via this method is reasonably instantaneous, I can see a lot of benefit with surgery. Deaths from anaesthesia could become a thing of the past.
Also, the various neuropathies as well as other forms of debilitating chronic pain could be alleviated. Phantom pain from a lost limb, for instance.
I’d hit that!
Finally, self immolation for fun.
'twas invented in Ireland long ago. My ancestors called it "The Water of Life." Had some last night while we were waiting for the turkey.
pain only represents the bodies interpretation of something.....which is why some people can have lots of pain and still continue to work, etc, while others can’t function....
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