Effector

Word EFFECTOR
Character 8
Hyphenation ef fect or
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Effector"

What do we mean by effector?

A muscle, gland, or organ capable of responding to a stimulus, especially a nerve impulse. noun

A nerve ending that carries impulses to a muscle, gland, or organ and activates muscle contraction or glandular secretion. noun

A small molecule or protein that alters biochemical processes in a cell, as by decreasing or increasing the activity of an enzyme. noun

A device used to produce a desired change in an object in response to input. noun

See effecter. noun

An effecter. noun

Any muscle, organ etc. that can respond to a stimulus from a nerve. noun

The part of a nerve that carries a stimulus to a muscle etc. noun

Any small molecule that effects the function of an enzyme by binding to an allosteric site. noun

One who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose noun

A nerve fiber that terminates on a muscle or gland and stimulates contraction or secretion noun

An organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses noun

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The word "effector" in example sentences

She said the new findings reinforce the notion that V. para kills a host cell through the combined efforts of several so-called effector proteins working together rather than through the actions of a single protein. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its primary way of killing cancer cells is by eliciting an immune response, drawing what are known as effector cells (various types of killer white blood cells) to the tumor and activating them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This process is called effector triggered immunity (ETI). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Professor Alan Cowman, head of the institute's Infection and Immunity division, said the parasite remodels the red blood cells by exporting hundreds of so-called 'effector' proteins into the cytoplasm of the red blood cell. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Naive CD8, and CD62L expression is lost during the 'effector' phase. ❋ Timothy E Schlub (2010)

But a few of these "effector" T cells survive and become memory T cells, ensuring that the immune system can respond faster and stronger the next time around. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In particular we identified a large number of so-called effector genes that are critical to pathogenesis that had been previously unknown and are extremely challenging to predict because of their small size and unusual structure. "

"effector" members of the IRG protein family such as Irga6, Irgb6 and Irgd ❋ Yang O. Zhao Et Al. (2010)

In the first study, Satoshi Nishimura and colleagues from the University of Tokyo show that CD8+ effector T cells play an important role in macrophage recruitment and adipose tissue inflammation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lorenz HP, Lin RY, Longaker MT, Whitby DJ, Adzick NS: The fetal fibroblast: The effector cell for scarless fetal skin repair. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What's left out in the 101 story, and in creationist tales, is that: evolution is about populations, so many changes go on in parallel; selectable traits are usually the product of networks of genes, so there are rarely single alleles that can be categorized as the effector of change; and genes and gene networks are plastic or responsive to the environment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As the interface is often represented by a chemical signal, they study the signal instead of its effector. ❋ Unknown (2007)

According to this proposal, even though the sensory-discriminative aspect of pain can perhaps be handled representationally, [19] the affective aspect reduces to the way in which the sensory-discriminative information is processed, not for analysis to extract information about the proximal or distal properties of the stimuli, but rather for its significance for the effector or motor systems, to set motivational parameters for action on the basis of stimuli's informational content. ❋ Aydede, Murat (2009)

The unusual feature of UV-B-induced immunosuppression is that it redirects cell-mediated immunity to sensitizing antigens from an up or “effector” type response to a down or “suppressor” type response. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The cargo bay is loaded with two spare gyroscopes, two nitrogen tank assemblies, two pump modules, an ammonia tank assembly and a spare latching end effector for the station's Canadian built robotic arm. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hypoxia (the stimulus) interacts with the heme protein (the receptor) that signals the kidney to produce erythropoietin (the effector). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Motor neurons (effector neurons) relay information from the CNS to other organs terminating at the effectors. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Neurotransmitter-Receptor binding and activation (effector membrane) ❋ Unknown (2008)

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