Sentences with phrase «particular receptor»

In particular a receptor known as GRIN2B, when boosted in transgenic mice, makes them better learners.

Scientists know that particular receptor proteins on human and animal adult brain cells respond to THC - like chemicals, or cannabinoids, which prevent the cells from making strong connections to one another, Harkany says.

Alternatively, a cell could ingest particular receptor molecules, hold them in vesicles called early endosomes and then recycle them intact.

For example, compounds found in hot peppers, cinnamon, and mustard set off particular receptors called TRP channels that are sensitive to heat.

«We were looking at the amino acid sequences of T cell receptors when Tomer asked what the corresponding epitope was for a particular receptor,» Thomas said.

«Mice are not known to eat very much in the daytime, but when we gave drugs to these animals that express a particular receptor, they were eating a lot.»

In fact, when an olfactory sensory neuron expressing a particular receptor gene dies and a new neuron expressing that same gene matures, the new neuron's axons plug in to the same group of olfactory bulb neurons that its predecessor did.

This mutation is on a particular receptor, or docking site, on the cancer cells that is crucial to the cell's growth and survival.

Using a particular receptor, the human immune system recognizes the lipoproteins on the staphylococcus bacteria; these lipoproteins only occur in bacteria and are not produced by the human body.

There are many potential ligands for this particular receptor, and although he'd blocked them all in the mice, he couldn't do that in a person without potentially interfering with vital signaling pathways that could produce myriad serious side effects.

«This is the first time we've got a direct molecular mechanism relating this particular receptor to apoptosis.»

In order to better understand serotonin's influence in the developing brain, Alexandre Dayer's team in the Psychiatry and Fundamental Neuroscience Departments of UNIGE's Faculty of medicine examined a particular receptor for this neurotransmitter, and its role in the formation of brain circuits.

Even though the dynamical parameters may be quite specific to a particular receptor system, the underlying structure of the module is essentially the same for different signaling receptors.

We know, for instance, that particular receptors are central to learning and the storage of information.

They discovered that rats most likely to self - administer addictive drugs had a particular receptor in the brain that is more responsive than the same receptor in rats least likely to self - administer addictive drugs.

This slide nicely shows this particular receptor, and that it's typically found in different regions of this brain, but also found in other tissues.

«This particular receptor has a long tail that it buries into the cell membrane,» Hafenstein explained.

Endogenous (produced inside the body) HGH puts its actions into effect by «molecularly» joining straight to particular receptors on specific muscle tissues which includes muscles, connective tissue (tendons, ligaments, bone, and fat), as well as just about every major organ.