nutriceptorn.
/ˈnjuːtrᵻsɛptə/, U.S. /ˈn(j)utrəˌsɛptər/ Physiology. Now historical.
In Paul Ehrlich's side-chain theory of receptors: a receptor on the surface of a cell which attaches to and assimilates nutrients.
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1911 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 7 Oct. 1210/2 According to Ehrlich's view, when a parasite becomes refractory to an immune serum it does so by developing new groups of receptors..these receptors being the same receptors as combine with the food materials, and hence called ‘nutriceptors’.
1926 R. J. E. Scott Gould's Med. Dict. 907/2 Nutriceptors, Ehrlich's name for receptors which react with foodstuffs more or less exclusively, and which therefore serve the nutrition of the cell.
1932 C. H. Browning in Syst. Bacteriol. (Med. Res. Council) 6 516 Ehrlich applied a modification of his receptor theory involving the conception of chemoceptors and nutriceptors.
1947 Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 1 40 Ehrlich postulated a change in character of nutriceptors by the action of antibody—the new nutriceptor in turn brought a change in the antigenic character of the organism.
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