Like treetops reaching high into the sky to sense the sunlight, our sensory neurons—whose role ... protein that is responsible for grooming the nerve endings. The study's findings, which shed ...

Those studies show that infection-fighting immune cells, known at CD8+ T cells, persist at the site of healed sores and accumulate near sensory nerve endings, where reactivating viruses are released.

What makes this exciting is that the central terminal - or ending - of a peripheral nerve actually expresses ... useful to alter spinal processing of sensory information in people suffering ...