News articles tagged with 'capsaicin'
Active ingredients in marijuana found to spread and prolong pain
— 14 Aug 2009 11:01 | HealthImagine that you're working on your back porch, hammering in a nail. Suddenly you slip and hit your thumb instead - hard. The pain is incredibly intense, but it only lasts a moment.... — full story
Chilli peppers continue to help unravel mechanism of pain sensation
— 25 Feb 2009 13:18 | HealthCapsaicin, the active ingredient in chilli peppers, generally is viewed as an irritant that produces a burning sensation when applied to a sensitive area of the body, such as the cornea... — full story
Chilli peppers help to unravel the mechanism of pain
— 24 Feb 2009 13:20 | HealthCapsaicin, the active ingredient in chilli peppers, is most often experienced as an irritant, but it may also be used to reduce pain. A new work published by Drs. Feng Qin and Jing... — full story
New hybrid plants could prompt more prodigious pepper production in Southwest
— 4 Nov 2008 17:12 | BiologyBy themselves or as an ingredient in a variety of foods, including salsa, America's top-selling condiment, peppers have found a warm spot in the hearts and stomachs of U.S. consumers... — full story
Bugs put the heat in chilli peppers
— 12 Aug 2008 17:49 | BiologyIf you're a fan of habanero salsa or like to order Thai food spiced to five stars, you owe a lot to bugs, both the crawling kind and ones you can see only with a microscope. New research... — full story
Hot peppers really do bring the heat
— 7 Aug 2008 14:29 | BiologyChilli peppers can do more than just make you feel hot, reports a study in the 1 August Journal of Biological Chemistry; the active chemical in peppers can directly induce thermogenesis,... — full story
Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness
— 2 Jul 2008 17:00 | BiologyThanks to salt and hot chilli peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing centre that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational... — full story
Structure of receptor for hot chilli pepper and pain revealed
— 21 May 2008 20:12 | BiologyYou can now not only feel the spicy kick of a jalapeno pepper, you can also see it in full 3D, thanks to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Using sophisticated equipment,... — full story
Neuroscientists identify heat sensing regulator
— 13 May 2008 11:48 | HealthNeuroscientists at Johns Hopkins are a step closer to understanding pain sensitivity - specifically why it's variable instead of constant - having identified a gene that regulates a... — full story
Naked mole-rats bear chilli pepper heat
— 29 Jan 2008 12:04 | BiologyPity the tiny naked mole-rat. The buck-toothed, sausage-like rodent lives by the hundreds in packed, oxygen-starved burrows some six feet under ground. It is even cold-blooded - which,... — full story