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- noun biochemistry Any of a family of
plasma membrane substances involved incellular functions such asvascular reactivity ,apoptosis andcytokine secretion
Etymologies
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Blend of purinergic and receptor
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Vulchanova L, Wang J, Li X, Elde R (1999) Immunocytochemical localization of the vanilloid receptor 1 (VR1): relationship to neuropeptides, the P2X3 purinoceptor and IB4 binding sites.
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