Finally, the Brain Sensor That Turns Down the Heat (2 of 3) (VIDEO)

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The movie shows a team member who is using electrophysiological equipment to analyze temperature-sensitive neurons of the mouse thermoregulatory center in vitro. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 25, 2016, online issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Song at University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "The TRPM2 channel is a hypothalamic heat sensor that limits fever and can drive hypothermia."

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Drs. Gretel Kamm, Hong Wang, Jörg Pohle and Jan Siemens - Institute of Pharmacology, Heidelberg University, Germany

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