Sentences with phrase «more receptors»

That's cortisol, because you have 4 times more receptors for cortisol in your belly fat.
We have more receptors in our brain than anywhere else.
More receptor sites means that more prolactin can pass into the lactocytes and thus milk production capability would be increased.
With more receptors at the synapse, signals are boosted and amplified and the memory persists.
Anatomical investigations have shown, however, that there are many more receptor cells in the retina than there are fibers in the optic nerve.
Over the past 30 years, scientists have found that strong input to a postsynaptic cell causes it to traffic more receptors for neurotransmitters to its surface, amplifying the signal it receives from the presynaptic cell.
Among many other things, the enzyme responds to signals from NMDA receptors, leading to more receptor activity and stronger signaling throughout the network of cells.
The ions stimulate dozens of enzymes that reshape the cells by opening up additional receptors and by prompting the formation of more synapses and new protrusions that contain still more receptors and synapses.
Up - regulation occurs when a cell is deficient in some kind of receptor so that more receptor protein is synthesized and transported to the membrane of the cell and thus the sensitivity of the cell is brought back to normal, reestablishing homeostasis.
When we breathe, those chemicals are delivered to olfactory receptors that are found within the nose, and since dogs have over a thousand times more receptors than us, they experience odors quicker and stronger than us: «Dogs trained for scent detection also have long noses that very efficiently deliver air to these olfactory neurons.
More receptor sites mean more potential milk production.
Biochemical tests of the adult animals showed that THC - doused brains had the same number of receptors that responded to THC as unexposed rat brains, but more receptors for heroin and more of a compound associated with reward behavior in their neurons, the team reports online 5 July in Neuropsychopharmacology.
According to a number of studies, prairie voles have more receptors in their brains for a hormone called vasopressin, which is believed to play a key role in pair bonding.
After that, the prolatcin surges when I breastfeed are much smaller, so the more receptors there are to gobble up what prolactin is there, the more easily you'll make all the milk I need.
After comparing the brains of males with offspring with brains of childless males in mating pairs, Kozorovitskiy and Gould found that fathers not only had more connections between neurons in their prefrontal cortex, a region involved in anticipating consequences and attaining goals, but they also had more receptors for vasopressin, a neurohormone linked to social interaction and bonding.
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