{"id":139267,"date":"2021-10-05T16:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=139267"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:26:28","slug":"explained-nobel-prize-in-medicine-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-nobel-prize-in-medicine-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Nobel Prize in Medicine 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Context:<\/span><\/b> Two scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the Nobel Prize in medicine 2021 on Monday for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About the discovery\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

Nobel prize in the medicine has been awarded for the\u00a0<\/span>discoveries of<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>receptors<\/span><\/b>\u00a0for temperature and touch.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Artificial sensors like thermometer are very common temperature sensors that can perceive changes in temperature. Similarly, in the human body, there are sensors to sense. However, only very specific proteins molecules relay these signals to the nervous system. These sensors were not identified yet.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now scientists have discovered the molecular sensors in the human body that are sensitive to heat, and to mechanical pressure, and make us \u201cfeel\u201d hot or cold, or the touch of a sharp object on our skin.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mechanism of receptors <\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

Artificial detectors like a smoke detector<\/strong> send an alarm when it senses smoke beyond a certain threshold.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Similarly, when something hot or cold touches a body, heat receptors<\/strong> open up a passage for specific chemicals, like calcium ions, through the membrane of nerve cells. The chemical inside the cell<\/strong> causes a small change in electrical voltage, which is picked up by the nervous system. It enables the brain to perceive high temperatures.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These detectors can also detect temperature or pressure changes<\/strong> inside the body. For example, when our urinary bladder is full, the pressure in the bladder increases. This change in pressure<\/strong> is sensed by the pressure receptors<\/strong> and relayed to the nervous system which creates this urge to relieve oneself.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Significance\u00a0of discovery<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

Discoveries opened up \u201can entire field of\u00a0<\/span>pharmacology<\/span><\/b>\u201d.\u00a0The identification of these receptors opens up the\u00a0<\/span>possibility of regulating their functionin<\/span><\/b>g. Researchers are already working to develop drugs to\u00a0<\/span>target the receptors<\/span><\/b>\u00a0they identified.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, there are receptors that make us feel pain,\u00a0if these receptors can be suppressed or made less effective, the person would feel less pain.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read – About Nobel Prizes\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cNobel Prize in Medicine 2021<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/b> published in epaper.livemint.com<\/span> & indianexpress on <\/span>5th Oct 2021.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Context: Two scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the Nobel Prize in medicine 2021 on Monday for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch. \u00a0 About the discovery\u00a0\u00a0 Nobel prize in the medicine has been awarded for the\u00a0discoveries of\u00a0receptors\u00a0for temperature and touch.\u00a0\u00a0 Artificial sensors like thermometer are very common temperature… Continue reading Explained: Nobel Prize in Medicine 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700487376},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}