Nerve damage can be an unfortunate side effect from an accident, illness or even certain treatments, like chemotherapy. Fortunately, the peripheral nervous system can heal itself to a certain extent, ...

A new study establishes important conceptual connections between the fields of circadian rhythms, metabolism, and addiction. Going beyond current studies on substance use disorders, which focus on the ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. The human body relies on complex and coordinated interactions ...

Researchers found that cold is detected differently in the skin than in internal organs. This split system helps explain why ...

Major changes in energy metabolism levels in ACLF (acute-on-chronic liver failure) include: (1) High levels of inflammation activate the body’s neurohumoral response axis, regulating the catabolic ...

A research team led by Félix Viana, co-director of the Sensory Transduction and Nociception laboratory at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint research center of the Spanish National Research ...

Peripheral neuropathy is a group of conditions marked by decreased or reduced ability to get or send nerve impulses to the limbs. It can affect your legs, feet, hands, arms, or fingers. It often ...

New research reveals factors that control the interplay of natural killer (NK) cells - which are part of the body's innate, or first line, immune response - with tumor cells, viral infections, and ...

The human body relies on complex and coordinated interactions between the brain and peripheral organ systems to maintain a stable biological environment and support essential functions like behavior ...