Synonyms for Receptor
rɪˈsɛp tərre·cep·tor

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1. receptornoun

   a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response

   Synonyms:
   sense organ, sensory receptor

   Antonyms:
   effector

2. sense organ, sensory receptor, receptornoun

   an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation

   Synonyms:
   receptor, sense organ, sensory receptor

   Antonyms:
   effector

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1. List of paraphrases for "receptor":

   receptors, receiver, receiving, receivers

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1. Donald Benton:

   Its a very complicated receptor binding process compared to most virus spike proteins, fluandHIVhave a more simple activation process.

2. Peter Chin-Hong:

   It also makes sense that it will be more transmissible from a biological perspective as the two mutations act at the receptor-binding domain of the virus, but there have been no official transmission studies to date.

3. Ripley Ballou:

   Viruses are pretty simple organisms and they all have antigens on their surface that are necessary to get them inside cells, everybody knows what the target for MERS is, it is the core spike protein, which is one of things that targets the cell receptor and allows it to get in. It's a single protein that can be used to induce an immune response.

4. Ravindra Gupta:

   We need to understand if we could knock out this (CCR5) receptor in people with HIV, which may be possible with gene therapy.

5. Robert McLean:

   Denosumab also decreases bone resorption by inhibiting maturation of osteoclasts through binding to a receptor on the surface of 'pre-osteoclast cells,'.