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The capsaicin receptor TRPV1 does not only senses heat and pain

ZHU Zhi-Ming^*, GAO Peng, LIU Dao-Yan

Department of Hypertension and Endocrinology, Daping Hospital, Army Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042

Abstract

Editor's note: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced at about 5:34 PM Beijing time on October 4. American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the award for "discovering receptors to sense heat, cold and touch". We invites experts in relevant research fields in China to write this article, briefly describing the receptor —— capsaicin receptor TRPV1, for sensing temperature, specifically introducing the characteristic research of Chinese scholars on the effect of TRPV1 and capsaicin.

Received: 　　Accepted:

Corresponding author: 祝之明　　E-mail: zhuzm@yahoo.com

DOI: 10.13294/j.aps.2021.0078

Citing This Article：

ZHU Zhi-Ming, GAO Peng, LIU Dao-Yan. The capsaicin receptor TRPV1 does not only senses heat and pain. Acta Physiol Sin 2021; 73 (5): 863-866 (in Chinese with English abstract).