How to Use receptor in a Sentence

receptor

noun

• This is where the receptor agonist part of the name comes from.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• To him, the most interesting finding in the paper was that about the toxic duo of natural killer receptors and T-IELs.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 14 July 2023
• Phenibut functions as a GABA receptor agonist in the brain [2].
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• The researchers then tasked the computer with fitting them against a 3D rendering of the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor.
  — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
• Psilocybin, on the other hand, acts on a specific serotonin receptor, an action that Back equates to a reboot of the brain.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2022
• Mifepristone gets in the way of this process by blocking the receptors that progesterone would normally bind with.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The T cells are engineered to make a synthetic protein called a chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR, that guides the cell to seek and destroy cancer cells.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
• Since psilocin binds to serotonin receptors, researchers are looking at whether magic mushrooms may be able to help.
  — Jennifer Chesak, Verywell Health, 13 July 2023
• While the brain itself doesn’t actually have pain receptors, pain fibers can be found elsewhere, such as the face and the dura (a membrane between the skull and the brain), which relay messages to the brain.
  — Brittany Edelmann, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024