The duo has revealed the mystery of touch.
Their study won the noble prize of 2021 in medicine or physiology.
After a lot of struggle and hard work, David Julius and Ardem Pataputian discovered how the science of touch works in your body.
They named their study “the discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”
David Julius, 66 years old, and Ardem Pataputian, 54 years old, both are American scientists. They worked religiously to unveil the secret behind touch in the human body. Both have been working since the 1900s and have done series of researches about the touch mechanism in our body.
Apart from that, both have several discoveries before this and also had awarded for the same.
You must have studied the four senses (sight, sound, smell, and taste) before in primary on how their internal mechanism works? But did you ever wonder how our body reacts to touch and identifies temperature?
Well, “the science of touch,” tells the story.
The mechanism:
David used ‘capsaicin’ the extract of chilies that indicates a burning sensation in a human body, while Ardem used ‘mechanical force’ to discover how skin cells respond.
The skin cells work as a thermometer or smoke detector that detects smoke and sends a signal to alarm when coming in contact with smoke. Same way, receptors allow passage walls to open up when coming in contact with heat, cold, or pressure.
There are ranges of receptors throughout our body that open up when it feels pain or comes in contact with heat.
Capsaicin triggers the pain, when pain increases, the number of channel wall increases to release ion that continuously sends signals to the nervous system that indicate the brain about highly increased or decreased temperature.
When any pressure is applied to our body, it also releases an electrical signal to the brain for quick action.