Word: anestheticized
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This binding allows the anesthetic, QX-314, which is unusual in that it cannot ordinarily enter the cell on its own, to enter nerve cells.
Through this mechanism, the anesthetic can affect pain-sensing neurons exclusively but effectively.
Bean said that the capsaicin, despite being intended as an anesthetic, probably caused the rats extreme pain in the short term, although its pain-numbing effects last up to three hours.
A team of Harvard researchers has found that the chemical that makes chili peppers hot combined with a particular anesthetic can diminish pain in rats without any of the negative side effects seen in other pain killers.
On Sept. 27, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Texas execution two days after agreeing to hear arguments about whether lethal injection falls under the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The toxic serum is meant to be pain-free, but there is some doubt about the drug...