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What is a receptor?

What is a receptor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) A protein on a cell wall that binds with specific molecules so that they can be absorbed into the cell in order to control certain functions.
  2. (biology) Any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli.
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Urokinase bound to its receptor maintained fibrinolytic activity over 24 hours in the rabbits.
The affinity between the mutually complemental antibody and receptor was described by a weighted affinity matrix.
All are viewed dispassionately, the heart as a pump, the brain as a network of neural tissues, the eye as a receptor of visual stimuli.
Several forms of familial hypercholesterolemia are the result of genetic defects in the gene encoding the receptor for low-density lipoprotein.
The rate of estrogen receptor positivity is significantly higher among men than women with breast cancer.
The blue light receptor has been considered to be the only light receptor that induces a phototropic response.

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