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This site is an analysis and explaination of Nature magazine article "The menthol receptor TRPM8 is the principal detector of environmental cold " composed by fall 2007 honors biology group 12 at the University of Arizona. This could not have been possible with out the help of Dr. Alan Nighorn, who is an associate professor of Molecular/Cellular Biology and Neurobiology at the University of Arizona.

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