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Giant spiders could help tailor pain blockers for people with irritable bowel syndrome – News-Medical.Net
Their study titled, “A spider-venom peptide with multi-target activity on sodium and calcium channels alleviates chronic visceral pain in a model of irritable bowel syndrome,” is published in the latest issue of the journal Pain.

University of Queensland researchers have found that a specific peptide found in spider venom could have properties that could make it useful in alleviating Pain in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Their study titled, “A spider-venom peptide with multi-target activity on sodium and calcium channels alleviates chronic visceral pain in a model of irritable bowel syndrome,” is published in the latest issue of the journal Pain.
Professor Richard Lewis from the Institute for Molecular Bioscie…
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