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Example sentences for: ligands

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The specificity profile of the two RAR ligands described here are similar to that of Ch55, a compound with ten times higher affinity for RAR-β than RAR-α, and which can block the growth of certain cancer types [ 4].
Thus these ligands can be useful in clinical applications where activation of δ opioid receptors needs to be combined with a weak action or an antagonistic action at μ opioid receptors.
The flexible ligands were rapidly docked into the superimposed grids, and the lowest energy conformation was further refined with an atomic representation of the receptor, and with both ligand and receptor side chains flexible [ 10 ] (see "Materials and Methods" for details).
We have identified three tyrosine residues that appear to play a role in binding of selective ligands to this receptor.
It has recently been reported that T cells expressing CCR5 gather at inflammatory sites such as RA or multiple sclerosis, and that interactions between CCR5 and its ligands (RANTES, MIP-1α, MIP-1β) are thought to be important in the accumulation of inflammatory cells at these sites [ 19, 20, 21].