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effector

[ ih-fek-ter ]

noun

  1. Also effecter. a person or thing that effects.
  2. Physiology. an organ or cell that carries out a response to a nerve impulse.
  3. Biochemistry. a substance, as a hormone, that increases or decreases the activity of an enzyme.
  4. The device has three arms with effectors that can grip and pick up objects.



effector

/ ɪˈɛə /

noun

  1. physiol a nerve ending that terminates in a muscle or gland and provides neural stimulation causing contraction or secretion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of effector1

1595–1605; < Latin, equivalent to effec-, variant stem of efficere ( effect ) + -tor -tor
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"The presence/absence of large genomic regions across these lineages showed that horizontal transfers of effector genes, namely genes that are important in establishing successful infection, contributed to establishing host specificity."

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A research paper titled "Targeted recruitment of immune effector cells for rapid eradication of influenza virus infections" has been published in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists found that how tight a parental T cell grabs a cancer protein determines if its daughter cells will be anti-cancer effectors or exhausted.

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Professor Simona Stäger points out that CD4 T cells normally differentiate into effector cells from "naive" CD4 T cells.

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These findings suggest that ATP and histidine act as effector molecules that trigger structural conformational changes in the ribozyme, which further influence enzyme stability and activity.

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