Word
Ghrelin receptor
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The docking point on a cell for ghrelin, a signal the stomach sends. Records for several entries in this index describe them acting here.
The lock that the hunger signal fits.
How the research records put it
The ghrelin receptor, also called the growth hormone secretagogue receptor, is the target of the growth hormone secretagogue class. A 2021 Nature Communications paper reports the structural basis of its signalling by ghrelin and by the synthetic agonist ibutamoren, and a 2001 Molecular Endocrinology paper reports regulation of Pit-1 expression through it.[1, 2]
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Where this word turns up
7 entries in this index name this word in its records. 3 of them are described on this site.
It turns up on these group pages: Growth hormone secretagogues.
And in these quick answers: Capromorelin, GHRP-2, GHRP-6.
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Where this comes from
The record the reference wording is taken from.
- Structural basis of human ghrelin receptor signaling by ghrelin and the synthetic agonist ibutamoren. Nat Commun (2021). pmid:34737341
- Regulation of Pit-1 expression by ghrelin and GHRP-6 through the GH secretagogue receptor. Mol Endocrinol (2001). pmid:11518797