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Secrets of gentle touch revealed

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#1    Karlis

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Posted 10 December 2012 - 11:23 AM

Touch -- the fundamental sense through which humans experience the world and derive pleasure and comfort

Our ability to sense gentle touch is known to develop early and to remain ever-present in our lives, from the first loving caresses our mothers lavish on us as newborns to the fading tingle we feel as our lives slip away. But until now, scientists have not known exactly how humans and other organisms perceive such sensations.

Though it is fundamental to our experience of the world, our sense of gentle touch has been the least well understood of our senses scientifically, because, unlike with vision or taste, scientists have not known the identity of the molecules that mediate it.
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#2    Abramelin

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Posted 12 December 2012 - 07:52 AM

Very interesting.

Here is the whole paper:

http://www.plosone.o...al.pone.0011012

I am curious about any relation between this NOMPC molecule and acupuncture.

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Edited by Abramelin, 12 December 2012 - 07:52 AM.





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