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Flies feel your pain

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Evolutionary conservation of TRPA1 underlies sensation of reactive noxious chemicals from flies to humans.

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Figure 1: The conserved sensitivity of TRPA1 receptors to reactive electrophiles allows both flies and humans to detect potentially harmful chemicals.

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  1. Lindsey J. Macpherson is in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,

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  2. and the Department of Cell Biology, Ardem Patapoutian is in the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, USA, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.,

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