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    Sunburn Offers Clues for Pain Drug Development

    Scientists have found a molecule in the body which controls sensitivity to pain from UVB irradiation, or sunburn, and say it may help them develop new drugs to treat pain in other common conditions such as arthritis .The CXCL5 molecule is part of a family of proteins called chemokines which recruit inflammatory immune cells to injured tissue, triggering pain and tenderness, the researchers said in a study in the journal Science Translational Medicine."We've identified this chemokine as an important factor that drives some forms of pain, and we did that in the context of UVB irradiation or sunburn," said Stephen McMahon from the Wolfson Centre for age-related diseases at King's College London and head of a research group called the London Pain Consortium."But this study isn't just about sunburn. More broadly we have identified a mediator that may be important in a variety of different pains states—particularly those associated with inflammation—and there are lots of those out there, for...

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