Making sense of pain: are pluripotent stem cell-derived sensory neurons a new tool for studying pain mechanisms?

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¹ Center for Gene Therapy, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
² Center for Gene Therapy, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Electronic address: Brian.Kaspar@NationwideChildrens.org.

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Kathrin Meyer et al. Mol Ther. 2014 Aug.

. 2014 Aug;22(8):1403-1405.

doi: 10.1038/mt.2014.123.

¹ Center for Gene Therapy, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
² Center for Gene Therapy, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Electronic address: Brian.Kaspar@NationwideChildrens.org.

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Characterizing human stem cell-derived sensory neurons at the single-cell level reveals their ion channel expression and utility in pain research.
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