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Receptor may refer to:
Sensory receptor, in physiology, any structure which, on receiving environmental stimuli, produces an informative nerve impulse ...
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An initial response of a receptor cell to a stimulus, consisting of a change in voltage across the receptor membrane proportional to the stimulus strength.
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Receptor may refer to:
In telecommunication, a receiver.
In physiology, a sensory receptor is any structure which, on receiving environmental stimuli, produces an informative nerve impulse.
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T-cell receptors (TCRs) enable the cell to bind to and, if additional signals are present, to be activated by and respond to an epitope presented by another cell called the antigen-presenting cell or APC.
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Chapter 16
Receptor-G-protein signalling in Alzheimer's disease
Richard F.Cowburn*1, Cora O'Neill, Willy L. Bonkale*, Thomas G.Ohm and Johan Fastbom* ...
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Receptors enable cells to detect hormones and a variety of other chemicals in their environment. The binding of a molecule and a receptor initiates a chemical change within the cell.
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Receptors are parts of the nervous system that sense changes in the internal or external environments.
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receptor-mediated endocytosis The type of endocytosis that involves a specific receptor on the plasma membrane that recognizes an extracellular molecule and binds with it.
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receptor - protein that binds to specific extracellular signaling molecule (ligand) and initiates a response in the cell.
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A receptor protein in the plasma membrane that responds to the binding of a signal molecule by catalyzing the transfer of phosphate groups from ATP to tyrosines on the cytoplasmic side of the receptor.
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HIV Receptors
Still one: The two distinct co-receptors on the surface of T cells are CXCR4 and CCR5, both requiring CD4 for the entry of the HIV virus.
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Photoreceptor body part or sensory neurons which are sensitive to light
(photo = light) ...
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T cell receptors play a major role in immunity and autoimmune diseases. For this reason, their genomic sequence has been chosen as a model system for the development of strategies and tools related to the human genome project.
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Each photoreceptor cell consists of two main sections, the cell body and the rhabdomere. The cell body contains the nucleus while the rhabdomere is made up of toothbrush-like stacks of membrane called microvilli. Each microvillus is 1 mm to 1.
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CRP
Catabolite receptor protein, also called CAP or catabolite activator protein. The interaction of CRP with cAMP modulates many aspects of catabolite repression in enteric bacteria.
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A serum protein that stimulates cell division when it binds to its cell-surface receptor. Growth phase (curve). The characteristic periods in the growth of a bacterial culture, as indicated by the shape of a graph of viable cell number versus time.
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chlorophylls A family of green pigments functioning as receptors of light energy in photosynthesis; magnesium-porphyrin complexes. chloroplasts Chlorophyll-containing photosynthetic organelles in some eukaryotic cells.
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If I've been at all clear, you'll see that once an animal has different photoreceptor classes the rest of the nervous system is already prepared to take advantage of them. An interesting case study in this regard is new world monkeys.
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Diploid cells resulting from the mating of Romans and Greeks do not make any pheromones or pheromone receptors.
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Apoptosis is often induced by activation of death receptors (DR) belonging to the
tumor
necrosis factor receptor (
TNFR
) family. Examples are
Fas
(CD95), TNFR-1 and
TNFR
-related apoptosis-mediated protein (TRAMP).
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GRE: Glucocorticoid Response Element: A binding site in a promoter to which the activated glucocorticoid receptor can bind. The glucocorticoid receptor is essentially a transcription factor which is activated only in the presence of glucocorticoids.
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A fiber carrying impulses from a receptor toward the central nervous system or central ganglion; a sensory nerve fiber.
Source: Curtis, Helena. 1968. Biology. New York, NY. Worth Publishers
What Topic Is Your BIOLOGY Paper On?
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Pacinian corpuscles: the touch and pain receptors on the skin, muscles, and tendons.
paleontology: the science of locating, cataloging, and interpreting the life forms that existed in past millennia.
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conservative or cut and paste: the transposable element is cut from the donor DNA and paste to the new location in the receptor DNA.
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A term introduced by Stephenson (1956) to describe the way in which agonists vary in the response they produce even when they occupy the same number of receptors.
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zona reaction - in mammals, modification of the zona pellucida that blocks polyspermy; enzymes released by cortical granules digest sperm receptor proteins ZP2 and ZP3 so that they can no longer bind sperm.
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and Cell Death Biochemical Society Symposia vol 61: Free Radicals and Oxidative Stress: Environment, Drugs and Food Additives Essays in Biochemistry vol 41: The Ubiquitin-Proteasome System Essays in Biochemistry vol 40: The Nuclear Receptor ...
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compound eye -- Found in many but not all arthropods, a compound eye is composed of a large number of small, closely packed simple eyes (ommatidia), each with its own lens and nerve receptors.
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TRANSGENIC - An animal (usually a mouse) or plant into which a foreign gene has been introduced in the germ line. An example: transgenic mice expressing the human receptor for poliovirus are susceptible to human polioviruses.
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