alpha receptor

This is not a dictionary! - Search for "alpha receptor" in The Danish Dictionary

• February 26. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  alpha receptor — noun — english

  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)