Fall Research Expo 2021
Overlap in Penk & Y1R Genes Involved in Pain & Hunger
Project investigating the overlap between penk and y1r genes encoding
for pain reduction/coping and how the overlap between these genes
express hunger and pain.
PRESENTED BY
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
College of Arts & Sciences 2024
Advised By
PRESENTED BY
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
College of Arts & Sciences 2024
Advised By
Comments
Your video does a great job…
Your video does a great job explaining some really complex ideas (especially for me as a historian!) and explaining their implications (which I would also like to hear more about)! I was mainly wondering if you could explain the implications of your results for the hunger-pain pathway. Is it that the two different types of pain relate differently to expression of hunger?
Important Implications
Are there any current hypotheses as to why hunger and pain are linked via a pathway to one another? Does one support or suppress the other? Really fascinating findings, Yaelee!
Proximity of neurons
Do you think that the proximity of y1r genes and the penk genes in the PBN link hunger and pain?