The proposed role of capsaicin in anesthesia during surgery is to
A) bind to internal receptors, preventing the transmission of electrical signals from pain receptors to the brain.
B) open channel proteins found only on pain-sensing neurons, allowing an anesthetic to enter those cells alone.
C) increase the rate at which calcium ions enter a nerve cell.
D) block the transmission of electrical signals between nerve cells and muscle cells.
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