The human sense of touch is a complex system that integrates diverse sensations such as pain, temperature, and pleasant ...

VZV causes chickenpox (varicella), after which the virus becomes latent in cranial nerve, dorsal root and autonomic nervous system ganglia along the entire neuraxis. Decades later, a declining VZV ...

spinal cord stimulation [SCS] and dorsal root ganglion stimulation [DRGS]) and psychiatric disorders (DBS, ablative techniques) in both adults and children. The management of these patients includes ...

They are studying both mice and lab-grown nerve cells. The researchers speculate that its secondary function in dorsal root ganglion neurons, which transmit sensory signals from skin-proximal ...

The TRPM8 channel is expressed by subsets of sensory neurons in dorsal root and trigenimal ganglia and is activated by cold or ligands, such as menthol or icilin, that trigger cold sensation.