Francis P McGlone

Manchester Metropolitan University · company speakers →

In this session, a running theme will be the role of a class of c-fibres in what one could call a “protection racket,” and the effects of serendipity in the speaker’s research journey over the past ~40 years. The c-fibres in question are the nociceptor, the pruriceptor, and the relatively new addition for human research, the “hedonoceptor.” Pain and itch will serve as examples of how vital such “harm detectors” are to survival, but the focus will be hedonoceptors and how working in a soap company provided the intellectual freedom and financial support to fund this journey.

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