West China Hospital has been conducting anesthetic drug research and development ... of ion channel Hv1 in sensory neurons as a key mechanism behind neuroinflammation-induced pain.

Earlier studies done mostly on mice discovered that the brain had a system that flushed its tissues with cerebrospinal fluid, ...

Through studies on rats, a team of researchers at Penn State has pinpointed the exact moment of loss of consciousness due to anesthesia, mapping what happens in different brain regions during that ...