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The sensation of pain cannot accurately be described as "located" at the point of an injury, or, for that matter, in any one pla
The sensation of pain cannot accurately be described as "located" at the point of an injury, or, for that matter, in any one pla
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2019-02-01
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The sensation of pain cannot accurately be described as "located" at the point of an injury, or, for that matter, in any one place in the nerves or brain. Rather, pain signals—and pain relief—are delivered through a highly complex interacting circuitry.
When a cell is injured, a rush of prostaglandin’ s sensitizes nerve endings at the injury. Prostaglandins are chemicals produced in and released from virtually all mammalian cells when they are injured: these are the only pain signals that do not originate in the nervous sys- tern. Aspirin and other similar drugs(such as indomethacin and ibuprofen)keep prostaglandins from being made by interfering with an enzyme known as prostaglandin synthetase, or cyclooxy- genase. The drugs’ effectiveness against pain is proportional to their success in blocking this enzyme at the site of injury.
From nerve endings at the injury, pain signals move to nerves feeding into the spinal cord. The long, tubular membranes of nerve cells carry electrical impulses. When electrical impulses get to the spinal cord, a pain-signaling chemical known as substance P is released there. Substance P then excites nearby neurons to send impulses to the brain. Local anesthetics such as novo-caine and xylocaine work by blocking the electrical transmission along nerves in a particular area. They inhibit the flow of sodium ions through the membranes, making the nerves electrically quiescent; thus no pain signals are sent to the spinal cord or to the brain.
Recent discoveries in the study of pain have involved the brain itself—the supervising organ that notices pain signals and that sends messages down to the spinal cord to regulate incoming pain traffic. Endorphins-—the brain ’ s own morphine—are a class of small peptides that help to block pain signals within the brain itself. The presence of endor- phins may also help to explain differences in response to pain signals, since individuals seem to differ in their ability to produce endorphins. It now appears that a number of techniques for blocking chronic pain—such as acupuncture and electrical stimulation of the central brain stem—involve the release of endorphins in the brain and spinal cord.
The passage is primarily concerned with
选项
A、analyzing ways that enzymes and other chemicals influence how the body feels pain.
B、describing the presence of endorphins in the brain and discussing ways the body blocks pain within the brain itself.
C、describing how pain signals are conveyed in the body and discussing ways in which the pain signals can be blocked.
D、demonstrating that pain can be influenced by acupuncture and electrical stimulation of the central brain stem.
E、differentiating the kinds of pain that occur at different points in the body’ s nervous system.
答案
C
解析
主题题型:A.酶和其他化学物质如何影响人体痛感。不全,本文还谈到缓解疼痛问题。B.endorphin,是文中第四段细节。C.正确。描述痛信号在体内如何传播,并讨论抑制痛信号的途径。见原文L5—7,全文都是这个内容的分述。D.针刺和电刺激。原文细节。E.区别人不同位置不同疼痛。无。
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