But there's no real heat in a pepper. So, what's going on? It's all about a chemical compound in peppers called capsaicin. Capsaicin binds to pain receptors on our nerves called TRPV1. Normally ...

The reservoir will be able to constantly release a precise drug quantity into the bladder ... be delivered by this technique in the future. Capsaicin, a substance P antagonist, recently has ...

“We have shown that certain linoleic acid metabolites serve as endogenous capsaicin-like compounds ... could provide new targets for analgesic drug development. “Drugs that block the synthesis ...

A UK study has found that nerve fibers expressing the capsaicin receptor TRPV1 (transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1) are more numerous in colonic tissue from patients with IBS than in ...