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  • adjective Not of or pertaining to a receptor.

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non- +‎ receptor

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  • Grant was the driving force in our first studies, in which we showed a role for nonreceptor tyrosine kinases in long-term potentiation, and in spatial memory in the hippocampus.

    Eric R. Kandel - Autobiography 2001

  • Untransfected cells showed no response to FSH, whereas all the cell lines showed normal cAMP activation when treated with forskolin, a nonreceptor-mediated cAMP stimulant.

    The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Current Issue Gerasimova, T., Thanasoula, M. N., Zattas, D., Sel 2010

  • The lentiviral system, pseudotyped with the VSV-G envelope protein, is an attractive system for viral packaging and delivery of shRNA constructs due to its broad tropism and nonreceptor-mediated delivery, its ability to integrate into the genome for stable gene silencing, and the fact that it does not require a mitotic event for integration into the genome.

    GEN News Highlights 2009

  • The classical protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) family characterized by a ~280 amino acid domain containing 10 conserved motifs, is divided into transmembrane receptor-like and intracellular nonreceptor PTPs,

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • 20.3 SYSTEMATIC CONSIDERATION OF DRUG INTERACTIONS 259 Other nonreceptor site of action interactions cular oxygen usually are incorporated into one of include MAOIs - pethidine

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows martins0105 2009

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