VPT 311: General and Systemic Veterinary Pharmacology (2+1)

FUNCTIONS OF RECEPTORS

The functions of receptors are

• To propagate regulatory signals from outside to within the effector cell when the molecular species carrying the signal cannot itself penetrate the cell membrane
• To amplify the signal
• To integrate various extracellular and intracellular regulatory signals
• To adapt to short term and long term changes with regulatory milieu and maintain homeostasis.