Staphylococcus aureus produces pain through pore-forming toxins and neuronal TRPV1 that is silenced by QX-314

Blake KJ, Baral P, Voisin T, Lubkin A, Pinho-Ribeiro FA, Adams KL, Roberson DP, Ma YC, Otto M, Woolf CJ, Torres VJ, Chiu IM.

Nat Commun, 2018

Summary:

See how MEA technology can be utilized to discover the underlying mechanisms of pain during bacterial infection.

Keywords: TRPV1, Staphylococcus aureus, nociceptor, pain