Defective Potassium Channels Cause Headache, Not Body Pain (IMAGE)

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Defective Potassium Channels Cause Headache, Not Body Pain

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Top: Normal distribution of TRESK channels (green) in facial pain sensory neurons. Bottom: Absence of channels in the knock-out mouse model.

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Guo et al., eNeuro 2019

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