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Potassium Channel Activator Is Up to the TASK of Pain Relief (3 of 3)

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Potassium Channel Activator Is Up to the TASK of Pain Relief (3 of 3)

image: TASK-3 selective agonists show potential as non-opioid analgesics. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 20, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by P. Liao at West China Hospital of Sichuan University in Chengdu, China; and colleagues was titled, "Selective activation of TWIK-related acid-sensitive K+ 3 subunit-containing channels is analgesic in rodent models." view more 

Credit: Zhongli Zhang/SOFCA LTD, Xiao Hu/SOFCA LTD, Ruotian Jiang/SICHUAN UNIVERSITY, Huaiyu Yang/EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY


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