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Nociceptors are a group of specific sensory neurons that can alert us to harmful environmental changes or stimuli, such as extreme temperature or pressure
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Their signals are translated into pain in the brain
Acute and chronic pain have long plagued the lives of many adults
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Because the brain's control mechanism for pain is extremely complex, the diagnosis of pain lacks an effective objective basis, which has led to the proliferation of opioid analgesics
Therefore, the development of non-opioid analgesics that are not addictive and can effectively relieve pain has a very large and very urgent clinical need
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December 20, 2021, Harvard Medical School Qiu Mingcheng (Isaac Chiu) et al.
, Nature Neuroscience journal published a report entitled: Anthrax Toxins The Regulate Pain Signaling and Molecular CAN The deliver cargoes INTO ANTXR2 + DRG neurons & Sensory research papers
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The study showed that the terrifying and deadly bacterium Bacillus anthracis (Bacillus anthracis) has unexpected benefits: the anthracnose toxin released by it can relieve a variety of animal pain
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This suggests that anthrax toxin may serve as a new potential analgesic therapy
Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus anthracis, a highly lethal bacteria, is highly infectious
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After infecting humans, it can cause skin necrosis, ulcers, extensive edema of eschar and surrounding tissues, and symptoms of toxemia.
On September 18, 2001, the United States had a sensational bioterrorism attack.
Bruce Edwards Ivins, a staff member of the US Army Institute of Infectious Diseases, sent envelopes containing Bacillus anthracis to several news media offices and two Democratic senators.
This incident resulted in 5 deaths and 17 infections
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Qiu Mingcheng and others found that the receptors expressed by specific sensory neurons near the spinal cord of mice and humans—the dorsal root ganglion cells—could bind to the anthrax toxin
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In addition, treating mice with edema toxin (an anthrax toxin) can reduce their sensitivity to painful stimuli, including heat or acupuncture
In addition, these findings raise another interesting question: From an evolutionary perspective, why do microorganisms eliminate pain?
Qiu Mingcheng believes that one possible explanation is that microorganisms have developed ways to interact with their hosts to promote their own spread and survival
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For Bacillus anthracis, they prevent the host from perceiving the presence of a bacterial infection by preventing the host's ability to perceive pain
The authors believe that this understanding of the interaction between anthrax toxin derivatives and pain receptors may promote the development of new research tools and the improvement of analgesic drugs
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Finally, the research team emphasized that this research is experimental, and testing in more animal studies is still needed to determine safety before it can finally be studied in humans
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In addition, in October 2019, researchers from Purdue University in the United States published a research paper in the International Journal of Cancer showing that anthrax toxin is used as an active ingredient and combined with a growth factor to make a new pharmaceutical preparation.
In just three minutes, the effect of the drug targeting to kill bladder cancer cells is achieved
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The author of the paper, Professor Claudio Aguilar, explained that: the human bladder tissue has a special protective layer that can protect normal cells from the "attack" of the anthrax mixture, but does not protect tumors and cancer cells from the "attack".
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Therefore, this innovative method can effectively kill bladder cancer cells without damaging normal cells in the patient's bladder
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Original source:Yang, NJ, Isensee, J.
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