Finally, the Brain Sensor That Turns Down the Heat (1 of 3) (VIDEO)
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The movie shows team members preparing and evaluating infrared images of mice implanted with a brain switch that turns on cooling neurons in freely moving mice in vivo. 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, and Jan Siemens - Institute of Pharmacology, Heidelberg University, Germany
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