This communication involves the release of chemicals from neurons that stimulate cell surface receptors on other neurons. (gladstone.org)
The mistaken activation of certain cell - surface receptors contributes to a variety of human cancers. (sciencedaily.com)
Another lab ran into a similar problem when it tried to replicate work by Stanford stem cell biologist Irving Weissman and his colleagues, who reported in 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that an antibody to a tumor cell surface receptor called CD47 can slow tumor growth in mice. (sciencemag.org)