Genes Causes Pain Revealed

It turned out that the gene could cause the same pains but have high levels of pain vary. Call it, two people have the same pains, such as backache. One person can still sengankan the second activity could only lay there.
Scientists have struggled to explain why some people are more sensitive and less able to bear the pain. A gene known as SCN9A responsible for this. This finding is expected to be a gene therapy in the future as an alternative in patients with severe chronic pain.
"By finding the gene responsible for the pain, it can increase the ability to conquer and control it," said Dr Geoffrey Woods of the Cambridge University, as quoted from the Telegraph, Tuesday (03/09/2010).
Dr Woods added during biomedical researchers and doctors are looking for analgesics (pain relief) is effective with side effects that can be accepted. Therefore required a significant development of therapies and better.
Many people in the world suffer from chronic pain as a result of injury or arthritis that affects their lives and some even cause depression.
Scientists discovered the gene in a study involving 578 people who suffer from osteoarthritis, pain shooting pain, pain pungung and other pain problems.
Found in proteins made by the version of the gene mutations known as SCN9A open longer than usual. This could increase neural activation resulting in pain or pain sensation.
"The pain serves as an adaptive mechanism that protects us from damage as a warning network and the possibility of injury," said Dr Woods.
With the discovery of the pain this gene, the researchers can modify the function of which could potentially SCN9A to treat conditions such as osteoarthitris. The results of this study have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.