How to Use receptor in a Sentence

receptor

noun

• Melatonin works on its own, separate receptor, and is much safer.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2021
• That mutation changed one amino acid — a building block of proteins — in the receptor-binding domain.
  — Liz Szabo, Quartz, 29 July 2021
• The analog even bound more strongly to nicotine receptors than nicotine itself and was more toxic to airway cells.
  — Bradley Van Paridon, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2024
• Researchers say Belviq targets a slightly different receptor that is not found in heart cells and therefore should not cause valve problems.
  — John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2021
• Covid goes after the ACE2 protein, which isn’t a typical receptor for a virus to latch onto.
  — Doug Strickland, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2021
• Worse, some people will develop withdrawal symptoms while still taking them, because the body responds to chronic use by changing the receptor, leading to less effect of the medicine over time.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2021
• The system fails to account for biased agonism of the mu-opioid receptor and the lack of beta-arrestin activation by mitragynines.
  — Mason Marks, STAT, 26 Aug. 2021
• The medications work by binding to the brain’s opioid receptors to block cravings and withdrawal symptoms without causing a high in a person with an opioid use disorder.
  — Kim Krisberg, NPR, 16 Sep. 2024
• 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
• In their lab studies, the team found that THC also binds to that receptor in blood vessels.
  — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Once on the surface, they can be recognized by a receptor on the surface of T-cells.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022
• Some research teams are focusing on the ACE2 receptor, a protein found on the surface of the cells of many species.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• 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
• This region codes for a part of the viruses receptor binding domain -- the part of the virus that docks onto a door on the outside of our cells.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 May 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024