mo4ch:>New ORGAN found just beneath the skin may be responsible for certain types of pain | Mo4ch News

A previously unknown sensory organ that detects dangerous environmental stimuli may be responsible for certain types of pain, according to scientists who discovered the organ lurking beneath the skin’s top layer.The meshlike organ senses pressure, pricking, and other mechanical discomfort caused by environmental factors, scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have found. Made up of a network of specialized glial cells called Schwann cells, which are found near nerves and were not previously known to be involved in pain sensation, the structure lurks just beneath the skin’s surface, extending filament-like protrusions into its outermost layer. The researchers published their discovery in Science on Thursday, giving the structure the less-than-glamorous name of nociceptive glio-neural complex (NGNC).Also on rt.comLab-grown HUMAN ‘mini-brains’ learned to control musclesThe NGNC forms a unique, intricately-connected network with nearby nerve cells all over the body, leading the rese…