Sentences with 'receptors'
Example sentences and phrases with the word receptors and other words derived from it.
• « Science is already working to find a specific remedy to combat the culprits of obesity, a certain type of receptors in the membrane of cells, especially in fatty tissues, some muscles, the liver and the gastrointestinal tract, called beta adrenergic receptors. »
• « The responses elicited by the receptors also have particularities that give them different names: those that elicit low intensity responses are called alpha receptors; those that elicit high intensity responses are called beta receptors. »
• « Furthermore, among the beta receptors there are also qualitatively different reactions, which is why they are subdivided into beta-1 and beta-2. »
• « Antagonist drugs have a more drastic effect: they block the receptors, eliminating the effect of the drug, but produce severe withdrawal symptoms in the addict that must be controlled with conventional methods; an antagonist is generally used to combat the effects of an overdose. »