What is "receptors"

Usage examples of "receptors".

Rose, S P R, Gibbs, M E, and Hambley, J Transient increase in forebram muscarinic cholmergic receptors following a passive avoidance learning in the young chick.

Chenzeme receptors in the walls, so that she and Hailey could practice the language of the dormant cells.

Mutants which lack the glucose receptors fail to show such behaviour, even though they will continue to make use of the glucose as an energy source if placed directly in contact with it.

Yet others, on the surface of the organism, concentrate receptors responsive to particular chemicals, like the bacterial glucose receptors, or even to light.

For instance, there could be a steady reduction in the amount of transmitter released by the presynaptic cell, or a modification of the receptors on the postsynaptic side to make them less responsive to a given amount of transmitter released, or both mechanisms could be operating.

Injection of drugs which can specifically bind to and poison NMDA receptors will prevent the initiation of LTP, though not its maintenance if already established.

Changes in the entry of calcium ions, or the phosphorylation of membrane constituents, or the activation of NMDA receptors, all seem plausible ways of bringing about a temporary change in the electrical properties of a cell, but what makes the change persist -what puts the L into LTP - should be the important question, if LTP is really to serve as a model for long-term memory.

If I had been working properly and systematically I should have gone back and looked at this -and other receptors - in detail in IMHV.

Burchuladze, R and Rose, S P R Memory formation in day-old chicks requires NMDA but not non-NMDA glutamate receptors, in press, 1992.

She forced her glial receptors to full sensitivity, but zylphed practically nothing.

And, when he finally managed to open his receptors, he was disoriented.

Through his glial receptors, however, the articles he encountered were seldom what they seemed.

And he could almost feel the intense concentration of her glial receptors upon him.

He was surprised at the almost instant response of his glial receptors, the surging flood of hypervisual impressions that engulfed him, the considerable detail he could sense, the minimum amount of distortion.

Then, exhausted from so much transsensory perception, he let his glial receptors settle into the endocrinal balance of nonsensitivity, knowing that the security forces would find Simmons and do whatever had to be done.