Assignment 4: Chemical Senses (due noon, Wed, Oct 4) Please answer both of the f

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Assignment 4: Chemical Senses (due noon, Wed, Oct 4) Please answer both of the following questions 1) What two paths does olfactory information take to reach your olfactory mucosa when you eat something? (2 sentences on path) 2) Why does capsaicin cream reduce neuropathic pain? (13 sensbly organized sentences, including definition of neuropathic p description of what capsaicin does to the neurons involved in neuropathic pain) athic pain? (1:3 sensibly organized sentences, including definition of neuropathic p Online text r 10 er

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1) Olfactory information can reach olfactory mucosa through two routes as follows,

2) Neuropathic pain is caused by diseases affecting somatosensory nervous system. Capsaicin cream at first cause burning sensation and with repeated application reduces pain. Capsaicin causes release of substance P, the mediator of pain and with repeated application substance P stores get depleted and therefore there is reduction in pain.

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