🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

receptor em estado ativo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ʁe.sepˈtoɾ ẽisˈta.du aˈti.vu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Active-state receptor/ˈæk.tɪv steɪt rɪˈsɛp.tər/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A proteína G interage com o receptor em estado ativo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A cellular receptor conformation that is functionally primed or fully activated to bind downstream signaling molecules and elicit a biological response.

    "The agonist successfully stabilized the active-state receptor, initiating the intracellular cascade."
  2. 2

    In pharmacology, a receptor state exhibiting high affinity for agonists and constitutive activity independent of ligand binding.

    "Mutations in the transmembrane domain can shift the equilibrium toward the active-state receptor."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in modern biomedical and pharmacological literature during the late 20th century, combining 'active' (derived from Latin 'activus', from 'actus' meaning 'a doing'), 'state' (from Latin 'status', meaning 'condition or position'), and 'receptor' (from Latin 'receptus', meaning 'received'). It emerged as molecular biology and GPCR (G protein-coupled receptor) pharmacology advanced to describe specific conformational states capable of triggering intracellular signaling.

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🇫🇷French → English

récepteur à l'état actif

Transliteration: ʁe.sɛp.tœʁ a l‿e.ta ak.tif

"Le ligand se lie au récepteur à l'état actif."

🇩🇪German → English

Rezeptor im aktiven Zustand

Transliteration: ʁɛtsɛpˈtoːɐ̯ ɪm ˈaktiːvən ˈtsuːʃtant

"Der Agonist stabilisiert den Rezeptor im aktiven Zustand."

🇮🇹Italian → English

recettore in stato attivo

Transliteration: re.tʃɛtˈtoː.re in ˈstaː.to atˈtiː.vo

"Il farmaco attiva il recettore in stato attivo."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

receptor en estado activo

Transliteration: re.sepˈtoɾ en esˈta.ðo akˈti.βo

"El complejo promueve el receptor en estado activo."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

receptor em estado ativo

Transliteration: ʁe.sepˈtoɾ ẽisˈta.du aˈti.vu

"A proteína G interage com o receptor em estado ativo."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

सक्रिय-अवस्था रिसेप्टर

Transliteration: sakriy-avastha riseptar

"सक्रिय-अवस्था रिसेप्टर सिग्नलिंग मार्ग को उत्तेजित करता है।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

活性状态受体

Transliteration: huóxìng zhuàngtài shòutǐ

"激动剂有助于稳定活性状态受体。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

활성 상태 수용체

Transliteration: hwalsing sangtae suyongche

"작용제는 활성 상태 수용체를 안정화합니다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

活性型受容体

Transliteration: kasseikei juyōtai

"アゴニストは活性型受容体を安定化させる。"

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