How do we feel temperature? A study now finds that a recently discovered anion channel is a temperature sensor that, like previously identified cation channels, mediates the perception of noxious hot temperatures.
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Bandell, M., Patapoutian, A. A hot new channel. Nat Neurosci 15, 931–933 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3148
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