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Andy Bell

@belllab.bsky.social
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Pain researcher, veterinary anaesthetist. Interested in somatosensation, pain & pain management. Glasgow, Bonnie Scotland.

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Andy Bell @belllab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Motivated by a simple question: how can studying pain biology in dogs help dogs, and also improve how we think about pain across species? We profile purified canine sensory neurons revealing conserved pain & itch biology across species, plus meaningful divergence with potential therapeutic relevance
In situ hybridisation for various mRNAs in canine DRG tissue. Probes against GFRA2, KIT, IL31RA and SSTR2 are shown
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Andy Bell @belllab.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
New preprint from the spinal cord group at Glasgow. Anatomical and functional characterisation of spinal circuits for cold, from sensory neurons to the brain…..https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680240v1
Labelled axons of calb1+ spinal projection neurons innervate multiple brain targets associated with cold sensation and thermoregulation. Darkfield images of different brain areas including the postal parabrachial and periaqueductal grey are shown with axons of ascending cells in yellow.
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Andy Bell @belllab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It's #fluorescencefriday so here are some lovely TRMP8-expressing cold-sensing sensory neurons in a mouse DRG. DAPI nuclei in green and TRPM8 mRNA in magenta.
Cells of the mouse dorsal root ganglion. Cold sensing sensory neurons are small cells and are stained with HCR in situ hybridisation probes against TRPM8 mRNA
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