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Channelling cold reception

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Perception of cold and hot is one of life's essentials. Three research teams find that, when a temperature-sensing receptor is deleted in mice, the animals lose their response to a range of cold temperatures.

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Figure 1: Sensing cold.

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  1. Bernd Nilius and Thomas Voets are in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Division of Physiology, Campus Gasthuisberg, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. bernd.nilius@med.kuleuven.be,

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