Odontoblasts are responsible for sensing cold, as per the researchers who report their findings in iScience Advances/i.
"We found that odontoblasts, which support the shape of the tooth, are also responsible for sensing cold," says pathologist Jochen Lennerz, MD, PhD, one of the paper's senior authors and medical director of the Center for Integrated Diagnostics at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
"This research contributes a new function to this cell, which is exciting from a basic-science standpoint....
Odontoblasts are responsible for sensing cold, as per the researchers who report their findings in iScience Advances/i.
"We found that odontoblasts, which support the shape of the tooth, are also responsible for sensing cold," says pathologist Jochen Lennerz, MD, PhD, one of the paper's senior authors and medical director of the Center for Integrated Diagnostics at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
"This research contributes a new function to this cell, which is exciting from a basic-science standpoint....