Contact: Anne Rueter
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University of Michigan Health System

How Gene Therapy for Pain Will Work

Caption: The gene transfer vector (left) is injected into the skin in the area of pain (red line, right). From the skin, the vector is carried into sensory nerves and releases the inhibitory neurotransmitter locally in the spinal cord (red oval).

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