{"id":2122,"date":"2026-02-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/this-itch-triggering-protein-also-sends-signals-to-stop-scratching\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:00:00","slug":"this-itch-triggering-protein-also-sends-signals-to-stop-scratching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/this-itch-triggering-protein-also-sends-signals-to-stop-scratching\/","title":{"rendered":"This itch-triggering protein also sends signals to stop scratching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TRPV4 protein\u2019s dual nature, found in studies with mice, may complicate the hunt for human itch treatments\u200bThe TRPV4 protein\u2019s dual nature, found in studies with mice, may complicate the hunt for human itch treatments\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/itch-triggering-protein-scratching\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TRPV4 protein\u2019s dual nature, found in studies with mice, may complicate the hunt for human itch treatments\u200bThe TRPV4 protein\u2019s dual nature, found in studies with mice, may complicate the hunt for human itch treatments\u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-medicine"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}