cell receptor
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Another Cellualar Switch....
a: Cell receptor ~
b: kind of switch
What: "Each cellular receptor is like a kind of switch connected to a lock-and-key mechanism, similar to the ignition system for a car. Only the binding of a specific chemical to the receptor will trigger the molecular switch, just as a car will start only if the correct key is inserted into its ignition."
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: May 14 2013 1:43 PM
# 3185 Critique Analogy
Let The Car Drive Into The Cell, It Seems
a: Cell receptor ~
b: the garage door
What: "To imagine how glucose, insulin, and cell receptors work, think of your car. To park in your garage, you need a garage door and a garage door opener. Glucose is like your car, the cell receptor is like the garage door, and the insulin is like the opener"
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: May 14 2013 1:46 PM
# 3187 Critique Analogy
A Tunnel Maybe?
a: Cell receptor ~
b: tube
What: "A receptor is like a tube that protrudes outside and inside the cell membrane or membrane of the nucleus. A cell may have around 500 receptors or thousands" A trans-membrane protein it is.
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Writer: conradofontanilla
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Date: May 14 2013 1:50 PM
# 3188 Critique Analogy
Catching The Molecular Ball
a: Cell receptor ~
b: a baseball glove
What: "The androgen receptor is important for our body's response to male hormones, such as testosterone and dihyodrotesteoserone. The receptor is like a baseball glove, and normally catches (I believe it is called "binds") androgens and then moves them to the nucleus, which is the main control center for the cell." ....
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Writer: Bruce
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Date: May 14 2013 2:06 PM
# 3189 Critique Analogy
Many Buttons The Cell Surface...
a: Cell receptor ~
b: a button
What: "Each receptor is like a button that starts a different process in the machinery within the cell. HIV infects CD4 cells by attaching to a number of receptors on the surface of the cell, including a critical receptor called CCR5."
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Writer: Bruce L. Levine
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Date: May 14 2013 1:59 PM
# 3191 Critique Analogy
Change The Channel Please....
a: Cell receptor ~
b: a remote control for a television set
What: "To study optic neuritis in a model, Smith is studying a chemical messenger (IL-23) which binds to a receptor or receiver on a cell. In simpler terms, the chemical messenger's relationship to a receptor is like a remote control for a television set. The receptor signals the cell to tell it what to do and then Smith tests the outcome."
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Writer: Alan Smith
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Date: May 14 2013 2:01 PM
# 3192 Critique Analogy
I Think They Found Her....
a: Cell receptor ~
b: a beautiful but remote lady
What: "To most of the modern pharmacologists the receptor is like a beautiful but remote lady. He has written her
many a letter and quite often she has answered the letters. From these answers the pharmacologist has built
himself an image of this fair lady. He cannot, however, truly claim ever to have seen her, although one day
he may do so" Written in 1964.
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Writer: D. K. deJongh
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Date: May 14 2013 2:13 PM
# 3194 Critique Analogy
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