Similar words: preceptor, precept, receptive, reception, receptionist, receptiveness, deceptive, deception. Meaning: n. 1. a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response 2. an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation.
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1) A specific leukotriene receptor antagonist awaits development.
2) A phosphorylated receptor is an unhappy receptor.
3) This receptor corresponds to the cloned family GluR1-4 47.
4) The result is fewer receptor molecules.
5) The receptor molecules are conduits for information, with one end outside the cell and the other inside.
6) This depends on a huge number of different receptor proteins, each tuned to a different sort of chemical stimulus.
7) About 30 years ago the estrogen receptor protein was first isolated from the rat uterus.
8) The unlocking of the receptor leads to the creation or suppression of a nerve impulse in the second cell.
9) Combination of a histamine H 2 receptor antagonist with a prokinetic agent may therefore provide an alternative treatment for reflux oesophagitis.
10) The neurotransmitter sticks to the receptor molecule, and together they are able to open a pore in the cell membrane.
11) But if the receptor lets in negative ions, the downstream neuron is made more resistant to firing.
12) Compelling evidence that the NMDA receptor performs this function is reviewed in the next section.
13) It is this that allows the NMDA receptor to behave as a molecular coincidence detector.
14) Even if every adenosine receptor in your brain were blocked by caffeine, you could still function.
15) Its affinity for the opiate receptor means, however, that it could be addictive in the same way as morphine.
16) The EGF receptor is a product of the erb-B oncogene.
17) There are at least two types of postsynaptic channels that open up when glutamate binds to their receptor molecules.
18) The increased conformational flexibility of L703766 may also explain the weakened interaction with the receptor.
19) When glutamate is released into a synapse, it docks at a receptor that lets positive ions rush in.
20) The gene they ultimately isolated is the blueprint for a protein called the alpha-7 nicotinic cholinergic receptor.
21) When cimetidine was given together with histamine, blockade of histamine 2 receptor may have reversed histamine stimulated growth.
22) The hope is that these peptides might compete with the virus proteins for binding to the receptor molecules.
23) These results are similar to those reported in maintenance trials of H 2 receptor antagonists analysed by the same method.
24) Such effects may be blocked by administration of histamine receptor antagonists, such as cimetidine.
25) Drugs which interact with the other types of glutamate receptor are without effect.
26) The solid outline encloses the area within which we measured each individual receptor.
27) More messages make them more active, and more likely to add phosphate to receptor molecules.
28) Agonists are substances which are so similar to a specific neurotransmitter they can occupy that neurotransmitter's receptor perfectly.
29) Like thermostats,[http://sentencedict.com/receptor.html] they constantly adjust such things as neurotransmitter release and receptor sensitivity to compensate for perturbations from the environment.
30) First, the build up of calcium may serve to sensitize the receptor as discussed earlier.
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