How to pronounce ∝6?

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Receptors containing an ∝6 subunit (∝6* nAChRs) are abundant in several specific brain regions. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena used mice expressing ∝6 labeled with a fluorescent protein to show that exposure to nicotine -- at a level comparable to that in human smokers -- up-regulated∝6* nAChRs in these areas of the brain.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131230134943.htm

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@oristarA,

I'm sure you know how to pronounce alpha six..

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@timur,

timur wrote:

I'm sure you know how to pronounce alpha six..

Is ∝ read as alpha?

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@oristarA,

Sure.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Is ∝ read as alpha?

(I hope you can see these images)

That is not an alpha (although alpha is the right symbol to use there); it is the mathematical symbol used to denote proportionality. The article quoted from uses the wrong symbol or the particular font chosen does not render an alpha correctly.

Proportion symbol:

This is a proper lower case Greek letter alpha:
$http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/gifs/alpha.GIF$

See the difference?

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@contrex,

Right, Contrex, they didn't use a real alpha.

However, it bears repeating that's what it means in the text quoted.

Btw, you can see that many scientific sites publish the same article with the same error.

But it's not difficult to find one using the right symbol.

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

oristarA wrote:
Is ∝ read as alpha?

(I hope you can see these images)

That is not an alpha (although alpha is the right symbol to use there); it is the mathematical symbol used to denote proportionality. The article quoted from uses the wrong symbol or the particular font chosen does not render an alpha correctly.

Proportion symbol:

This is a proper lower case Greek letter alpha:
$http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/gifs/alpha.GIF$

See the difference?

Yes, my first reaction was this is a proportion symbol. But how to read it in English?

Alpha is what tha article auther intended to use, as Timur has pointed it out.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Yes, my first reaction was this is a proportion symbol. But how to read it in English?

x ∝ y

You would read this as "x is proportional to y"

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