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Receptor-binding screening
A method of identifying useful drugs by exposing large numbers of chemicals to cellular receptors and selecting those agents that attach to and activate the receptors.
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Touch receptor
A Merkel’s disk, a Meissner’s corpuscle, or a nerve plexus around a hair root.
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Temperature receptor
Any of the free nerve endings in the dermis that detect heat and cold.
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Ryanodine receptor
The release channel for calcium ions that is found on the membranes of the sarcoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscles.
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Rotary receptor
One of the hair cells in the cristae of the ampulla of the semicircular ducts of the ear. It is stimulated by angular acceleration or rotation.
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Proprioceptive receptor
A muscle or tendon spindle. These are the receptors for muscle stretching or kinesthetic stimuli.
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Killer cell inhibitory receptor
Molecules on the surface of natural killer (NK) cells that bind with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I markers and inhibit the ability of NK cells to destroy target cells. Different groups of KIRs may create subsets of NK cells that bind to and destroy different targets.
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Immunologic receptor
A receptor on the surface of white blood cells that identifies the type of cell and links with monokines, lymphokines, or other chemical mediators during the immune response.
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Homing receptor
An adhesion molecule on leukocytes that binds to endothelial cells in blood vessels. It is used by white blood cells to guide them to inflamed or infected tissues in the body.
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Gravity receptor
A macular hair cell of the utricle and saccule. It responds to changes in position of the head and linear acceleration.
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