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:
   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. Sandhya Pruthi:

   I was most impressed by the significant reduction in the receptor negative breast cancer with adherence to the Mediterranean diet, this study is an important contribution to the efforts being studied to prevent (estrogen-receptor, progesterone-receptor)-negative breast cancer which is known to be more aggressive and higher risk of recurrence.

2. Mansoor Husain:

   This is the first orally-available GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) receptor agonist and that's a pretty big deal, just being able to take a pill every day makes it much more accessible.

3. Antoni Wrobel:

   We can then start to think about therapeutics that would fit somewhere either in the receptor surface or somewhere in the spike itself that then act as drugs.

4. David Melzer:

   These include genes that interact with health behaviors, such as the nicotine receptor gene.

5. Sekyu Choi:

   We first asked whether the stress hormone was regulating the stem cells directly and checked by taking out the receptor for corticosterone, but this turned out to be wrong. Instead, we found that the stress hormone actually acts on a cluster of dermal cells underneath the hair follicle, known as the dermal papilla, dermal papilla is known to be critical for activating hair follicle stem cells, but none of the previously identified factors secreted from dermal papilla changed when stress hormone levels were altered. Rather, the stress hormone prevented dermal papilla cells from secreting Gas6, a molecule that the researchers showed can activate the hair follicle stem cells.