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Cold feeling traced to source

For the first time, neuroscientists have visualized cold fibers -- strands reaching from sensory neurons near the spinal cord to nerve endings in the skin tuned to sense different types of cold. The study confirms the important role of the protein TRMP8 in cold-sensing neurons.

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