Sentences with phrase «such receptors»

The human body has about 1,000 kinds of such receptors, structures on the surface of cells, which let the body respond to a wide variety of chemical signals, like adrenaline.

Such receptors allow insects to identify members of their own species.

In cell cultures, the presence of nicotine seemed to increase the number of such receptors present, but also numbed some of them.

That made researchers worry that small chemicals — which might be just 2 % of a protein's size — would be too puny to turn on such receptors.

The p75 protein binds to one such receptor called Ret, which is associated with some neurological conditions as well as certain types of cancer.

Neurogeneticist Ivan Rodriguez of the University of Geneva in Switzerland and colleagues wondered whether there might be additional such receptors that respond to a disease «scent,» perhaps by detecting chemicals associated with bacteria and inflammation.

A better understanding of such receptors, he says, may help researchers more efficiently target nicotinelike drugs in patients with diseases that may involve nicotinic receptors, including Parkinson's disease, Tourette's syndrome, and schizophrenia.

«We knew that nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, which bind to the virus in muscles, are also found in the brain, and we presumed that virus could also bind to such receptors.

Such receptors are natural targets for drug development.

Their experiments with lab - grown mouse and human T - cells suggest that people with cancer who have a greater variety of such receptors may respond better to immunotherapy drugs and vaccines.

Hu et al. and Zhang et al. use cryo — electron microscopy to uncover the structural and biochemical basis of two such receptors: NAIP2, which directly binds microbial ligands, and NLRC4, a protein functioning directly downstream.