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Meanings of ligands in English

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адденд
Portuguese
ligantes
Spanish
ligando
Catalan
lligant

Molecule or functional group that binds or can bind to the central atom in a coordination complex.

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        First, different ligands for a given TAAR can vary in behavioral effect.
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        However, the unique and overlapping roles of these ligands remain poorly understood.
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        However the development of peptides as pharmaceutical ligands has been more limited.
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        Therefore, we examined primary stromal cell cultures for expression of Notch ligands.
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        Soluble ligands are important targets for therapy of cancers and other diseases.
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        PPARalpha ligands have been shown to reduce cardiovascular events in high-risk subjects.
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        Moreover, they have been broadly used as privileged ligands in asymmetric catalysis.
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        New synthetic routes enable facile interconversion of coordination modes and supporting ligands.
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        How TGF-beta-type ligands achieve signaling specificity during development is only partially understood.
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        Also discussed are the potential bioanalytical and therapeutic applications of mismatch-binding ligands.
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        The assay applies aptamers as ligands to capture and detect the virus.
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        Phosphorylation-driven phase separation can be promoted or reversed by specific HP1a ligands.
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        Some receptor-tyrosine-kinase-like orphans still lack identified ligands as well as biological roles.
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        The distal pocket discriminates ligands on the basis of size and pKa.
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        These inconsistencies have most likely arisen from the unavailability of selective ligands.
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        The identities of the human and bovine lymphocyte E-selectin ligands are unknown.
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