cell receptors

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cell receptors

; cell membrane receptors protein structures within cell membranes, activated by ligands (i.e. drugs, enzymes, biochemicals or hormones) to cause a cell membrane or intracellular effect; receptor numbers rise and fall in response to local needs and demand, e.g. receptor upregulation occurs when ligand-driven demand increases, and vice versa

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A 1975 story discussed new insights into cell membrane receptors, including Robert Lefkowitz's results (SN: 8/16/75, p.

Prizewinning--and prizeworthy--science

Concentrating on cell membrane receptors themselves, together with their immediate signal transducers, this introductory text on receptor pharmacology combines four major approaches in the study of receptors: molecular investigation of receptor structure; quantitative functional studies of agonists and antagonists; ligand binding; and signal transduction at the cell membrane.

Textbook of receptor pharmacology, 3d ed

Among his specific topics are cellular activation processes, cell membrane receptors and phospholipids, signaling cascades, cell proliferation, apoptosis, control of the cytoskeleton, cell defense and survival, and the cell cycle.

Guide to signal pathways in immune cells

Retroviruses such as HIV establish contact and enter their target cells via an interaction between proteins on the surface of the virus, known as spikes, and specific host cell membrane receptors.

Electron tomography shows how HIV invades cells

Tocolytic magnesium was thought to be neuroprotective, he said, possibly because of modulation of cell membrane receptors.

High-Dose Magnesium Raises Hemorrhage Risk

Harvard College (Cambridge, MA) has patented dimerization and oligomerization of proteins are general biological control mechanisms that contribute to the activation of cell membrane receptors, transcription factors, vesicle fusion proteins, and other classes of intra- and extracellular proteins.