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Pain begins differently for men and women at the cellular level

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Pain begins differently for men and women at the cellular level, research says
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Dr. Ted Price, Dr. Salim Megat and their colleagues in the Pain Neurobiology Research Group recently found that a specific manipulation of receptors in the nervous system for the neurotransmitter dopamine impairs chronic pain in male mice, but has no effect on females.

Price, an associate professor of neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, said that the new findings add to the growing chorus of recent research indicating strong differences in pain's origins in males and females. The results were published in The Journal of Neuroscience.
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