How to Use receptor in a Sentence

receptor

noun
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  • This is where the receptor agonist part of the name comes from.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • These sensors serve the same purpose as the receptors in your nose.
    — Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
  • Opioids bind to certain parts of the brain, called mu receptors.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But the binding also had to be reversible so the drug could find its way to GLP-1 receptors in the pancreas.
    — Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The medicine makes the brain receptor more sensitive to GABA.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The receptors are on the inside of your GI tract, so putting something on the outside is unlikely to help in the long run.
    — Julie Stewart, Men's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Rather, all of the key receptor types were sprinkled throughout New York and China alike.
    — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The placenta, the new organ that forms to nourish the fetus, presents new receptors for the disease to bind to.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Vox, 30 May 2024
  • An example is the gene that codes for the ACE2 receptor, a protein on the surface of cells that the virus uses to slip inside.
    — Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Because the simplest versions of this just put in one new receptor.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The team needed to make sure the ABA receptor could sense the pesticide but still be able to perform its usual job.
    — WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Delta 8 like Delta 9 binds to the CB1 receptor in the brain, which is what gives cannabis its psychoactive properties.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The receptor is found throughout our body, including the inside of our mouth.
    — Ken Kawada, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
  • According to a study, the seeds of wild chili peppers are often spread by birds, which do not have heat receptors in their mouths.
    — Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
  • Both are naturally produced in the body and the drug targets receptors in the brain for these hormones.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
  • This means that if one human-smell receptor isn’t working for some reason, the bugs have a backup.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Blocking this receptor hinders the production of T cells that can help heal wounds on the barrier of the skin, lungs and gut.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 July 2024
  • Lehner says ticks have a strong sense of smell in order to find food sources, which is why blocking their scent receptors is a sure way to keep them away.
    — Steven Rowe, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The receptors control constriction and dilation in the smooth muscle fibers in the walls of these blood vessels.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Concerned readers will be happy to know that plants don’t have nerves or pain receptors.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2024
  • And while methadone is squatting on a receptor, other opioids can’t attach to it.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Foster explained that scent first has to come into contact with a receptor in your nose.
    — Carla Delgado, Verywell Health, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The edits allowed the donor T cells to slip past the body’s defenses, recognize a certain receptor on leukemia cells, and kill the cancer.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2022
  • There are no pain receptors in the retina so this can happen without feeling pain.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The drug mimics folate, so is also taken up by the receptor protein too.
    — Victoria Forster, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • And one type of receptor for glutamate is the NMDA subtype.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • When looking for pieces of viruses to clip and attach, the team zeroed in on a section of the spike protein called the receptor binding domain, or RBD.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
  • That’s an issue, since the most efficient way to understand how GIP works is to study human versions of the receptors in mice.
    — Alice Park, Time, 6 June 2023
  • There are also some GLP-1 receptors in neurons, as well as in astrocytes, which are [brain] cells that control the extent of inflammation.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 19 July 2024
  • In blood samples of people with lupus, the researchers also tested the effects of adding a small molecule that activates the aryl hydrocarbon receptor.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 July 2024

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