Sentences with phrase «second receptor»

In 1990 Lisa Matsuda cloned CB1, the first cannabinoid receptor discovered in rats, and Shawn Munro cloned a second receptor (CB2 in humans) in 1993.

This suggests that unlike all the other tastes we've cracked so far, salt perception has two parts: some receptor that's involved in making salt attractive, and a second receptor, or other biological process, that makes it unattractive at high concentrations.

Lassa virus entry in susceptible species involves a pH - dependent switch to a second receptor within the lysosome.

A team of researchers from the Pasteur Institute in Paris has discovered a second receptor on the surface of cells that helps HIV to enter and infect them.

To find the second receptor protein, molecular biologist Stefan Weiss of the University of Munich in Germany and his colleagues used a technique called a two - hybrid yeast screen, which turned up another protein on the cell surface called the laminin receptor precursor (LRP).

Nobody expected there to be a second receptor, inside of the cell.»