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Bacteria get on your nerves

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During infection, the inflammatory immune response can cause pain by activating nociceptor neurons. A bacterial pathogen also seems to stimulatepain directly, modulating the immune response in its favour. See Article p.52

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Figure 1: Immune-related functions of peripheral nociceptors.

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  1. Victor Nizet is in the Department of Pediatrics and at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA,

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  2. Tony Yaksh is in the Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego.,

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