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PubMed 12814565


Referenced in: none

Automatically associated channels: Kir2.3



Title: Thermosensation: hot findings make TRPNs very cool.

Authors: Craig Montell

Journal, date & volume: Curr. Biol., 2003 Jun 17 , 13, R476-8

PubMed link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12814565


Abstract
TRPV and TRPM proteins have been shown to form temperature-responsive cation channels that act in nociception. Recent work on the mouse ANKTM1 and Drosophila Painless proteins shows that members of a third TRP subfamily, TRPN, also function in thermosensation.