#mousevshuman — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mousevshuman, aggregated by home.social.
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"mice have approximately four-times more platelets per microliter than humans"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2019.08.035 -
Study offers a potential pathway for safer, non-addictive pain management
"The study showed that when D₂O passed through the TRPV1 channel, it suppressed pain signal transmission and achieved effective analgesia."
They studied both human cells in vitro and mice. This is good since another study found that D2O activated sweet taste receptors in humans, but not in mice -
Sweet taste of heavy water
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-01964-y#HeavyWater #D2O #solvents #TRPchannels #SweetTasteReceptors #Pain
#nociception #TRPV1 #neuroscience #biology #MouseVsHuman -
"Human TRPA1 activity is suppressed by caffeine (Figure 10), whereas in mice this ion channel is stimulated by caffeine."
https://doi.org/10.1177/0960327119877460
#MouseVsHuman #MouseModel #Mice #TRPA1 #TRPchannels #caffeine #pain #neuroscience #biology
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What do you think about a hashtag for posts about mouse / human differences, e.g.,
#MouseVsHuman ?