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Capsaicin Drug Candidate Under Trials for Post-Operative Pain
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 31, 2007
Doctors and Anesiva , a biotech firm focusing on developing novel therapeutic treatments for pain are exploring the use of capsaicin to alleviate post-operative pain .
Nerve cells that sense a type of long-term throbbing pain bear a receptor, or gate, called TRPV1. Capsaicin binds to that ...