英语释义

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

• 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

片语

insulin receptor胰岛素受体

glutamate receptor谷氨酸受体

cannabinoid receptor大麻素受体

estrogen receptor雌激素受体

receptor protein受体蛋白质

receptor site受点，受体部位

stretch receptor[解剖][生理] 牵张感受器；伸张感器

progesterone receptor黄体酮受体

hormone receptor[组织] 激素受体；荷尔蒙受体

Leptin ReceptorLeptin receptor also known as LEP-R is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LEPR gene. LEP-R functions as a receptor for the fat cell-specific hormone lepti

mannose receptorThe mannose receptor is a C-type lectin carbohydrate binding protein primarily present on the surface of macrophages and dendritic cell It also can be found on skin cells such as human dermal fibroblasts and keratinocytes Szolnoky, G.

Receptor Biochemistry[生化]

英汉例句

• in the meantime, other scientists had identified a receptor in a group of neurons that enable fruit flies to smell carbon dioxide, which signals the presence of a good meal of tasty yeast.

  同时，其他科学家已经在一组神经元中识别出了一个受体，这个受体能使果蝇闻到二氧化碳，二氧化碳是一顿美味的活酵母呈现的标志。

• those mutations had little effect on how the receptor grabbed hormones.

  这些突变对受体如何结合激素没有影响。

• 「we were surprised to get a dead receptor that wouldn「t respond to any hormones, because those same states had existed in the protein a relatively short time before,」 says thornton.

  「我们惊讶地得到了死亡受体 ， 它不会对任何激素产生反应，因为以前那些同样的状态在蛋白质中只存在很短的时间。」桑顿说道。

• perhaps the most intriguing evidence for the importance of monitoring our microbiome comes from the gut」s csf receptor itself.

  或许监测我们的微生物菌群的重要性最有趣的证据来自于内脏的csf受体本身。

• this receptor was previously thought to be a simple nutrient transporter, despite being found in even the furthermost reaches of the intestine, where most nutrients would already have been absorbed.

  这个受体先前被认为是一个简单的营养转运体，但是它被发现甚至远在肠道内也存在，在那里大多数营养都已经被吸收了。

• in order for a cell to respond directly to insulin it must display an insulin receptor on its surface.

  为了使一个细胞能够直接对胰岛素做出反应，因此在它表面必须有一个胰岛素受体。

• they have seen that a receptor for stress hormones appears to undergo a biological change in the unborn child if the mother is highly stressed, for example, because of a violent partner.

  他们发现如果母亲生活在高压下,比如说，有一个暴力的老公，在未出生的孩子身上应激激素受体似乎经历一个生物性改变。

• once these poisons diffuse into an exposed cell, each molecule can mate with a receptor and together they eventually pick up a third molecule.

  一旦毒物扩散到暴露的细胞内，毒物分子便会与细胞中的受体相结合，并与细胞内的另一种分子联结在一起。

• of 72 types of odour receptor on its antennae, at least 27 are tuned to detect chemicals found in perspiration.

  在蚊子触角上的72种气味受体中，至少有27种被用来探测汗液中所发现的化学物质。

• thus a receptor may be a protein, enzyme, membrane channel, or a region of a foreign pathogen.

  这样的受体可以是蛋白质、酶、膜通道或外来病原体的一个区域。

• female mice that lacked an estrogen receptor were born with longer digits, and those that did not have testosterone had shorter, superfeminine digits.

  而缺少雌激素受体的雌性老鼠生来指爪就更长，那些没有雄激素老鼠的指爪则更短，并且非常女性化。

• radical cure: inhibit a receptor to slow brain activity to normal levels.

  根治方法 ：抑制受体使大脑活动放慢到正常水平。

• the study focused on different versions of a receptor for the neurotransmitter dopamine, which controls feelings of pleasure.

  研究围绕不同的多巴胺受体，多巴胺是一种神经递质，控制人的愉快的感觉。

• antagonists tend to be small molecules that bind irreversibly to the receptor preventing its normal function, while agonists may be small or large molecules (e.g. peptide or protein hormones).

  抑制剂一般是小分子，他们不可逆转地结合在受体上阻碍其正常功能，而兴奋剂可以是小或大分子。

• researchers thought this meant the receptor would be central to the survival of those cancer cells, but that has not consistently been so.

  研究人员认为，这表示受体对癌细胞的存活有着重要的作用，但它却并不一直是这样。

• for example, increased expression of the glucocorticoid receptor gene in particular brain regions improves the ability to regulate a stress response.

  例如，糖皮质激素受体基因在大脑特定区域的持续表达提高了调节应激反应的能力。

• the five key mutations could not be reversed first, because the receptor would be rendered useless.

  这五个关键突变不能被先逆转回去，因为这样的话受体就会变得无用。

• in this case, the variation happens inside a gene for one of the receptor molecules that nicotine attaches itself to when it produces its buzz.

  在这一情况下，编码一种受体分子基因的内部发生了变异——当这一受体发出信号时，尼古丁就与之结合。

• but he argues that the number is likely to be large because the type of complex interactions between mutations that caused irreversibility in the evolution of the cortisol receptor are common.

  但他坚持认为这样的蛋白质数目可能会很多，因为在皮质醇受体的进化过程中，导致不可改变性的突变之间复杂的相互作用的形式比比皆是。

• sometimes an attacking mongoose is bitten, but it has another line of defense against the venom — its acetylcholine receptor has also evolved so that the cobra neurotoxin cannot bind to it.

  有时猫鼬也会被咬到，但它还有除了反应之外的第二种防御毒液的方式——它的乙酰胆堿受体同样进化到了不怕眼镜蛇神经毒素的地步。