What is the mystery of women's pain?
Even # medicine stands helpless in front of women
The pain experienced by females is one of the most mysterious phenomena in medicine, and researchers have found evidence of different shape of pain in women's cells compared to men.
At least 30 percent of women suffer from pain during sex, while one in six women experiences menstrual cramps, which are similar to heart attacks.
So far, doctors do not know much about the pain of women, because pain research included male cells, assuming that the "abnormal" results also apply to females.
The finding, drawn up by the research team at the University of Texas at Dallas, adds to a growing body of research on the effectiveness of certain drugs on men without women, and vice versa.
Unfortunately, researchers found in this discovery a new way to treat male pain, while female therapy is still obscure, especially for those who suffer from chronic pain.
The new study began in 2014, after the National Institutes of Health Center requested all pre-clinical trials, which included male and female data.
Previously, scientists tended to avoid tests on female models, because their menstrual cycle and their fluctuating hormones produced less consistent results.
To assess gender differences, the lead author of the study, Ted Bryce, of the neuroscience research team, manipulated neurodegenerative dopamine receptors in male and female rats.
Dopamine is a molecule released by neurons to send signals to other nerves. It can also stimulate feelings of happiness, and is usually used to provide an antidote to pain.
However, researchers found that manipulation of these receptors limited chronic pain in male mice only, but had no effect on females.
"We may need to develop a diagnostic process to look at the types of individual cells that prolong the pain so that we can adapt the treatment based on the underlying mechanism," Dr. Price said.
Source: Daily Mail
