Usually means: Protein binding adrenaline, controlling responses.
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  1. alpha-receptor: Merriam-Webster
  2. alpha-receptor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. alpha receptor: Vocabulary.com
  4. alpha receptor: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. alpha-receptor, alpha receptor: Dictionary.com
  6. Alpha receptor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. alpha receptor: Rhymezone
  8. alpha receptor: FreeDictionary.org
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  10. alpha-receptor, alpha receptor: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. alpha-receptor, alpha receptor: Medical dictionary

(Note: See alpha_receptors as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (alpha receptor)

noun:  receptors postulated to exist on nerve cell membranes of the sympathetic nervous system in order to explain the specificity of certain agents that affect only some sympathetic activities (such as vasoconstriction and relaxation of intestinal muscles and contraction of smooth muscles)


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