Steroid hormones stimulate the protein synthesis, because steroid hormones pass easily through the plasma membrane, their receptors are inside the target cells. After being released from a carrier protein in…
Hormones modify the biochemical activity of a target cell or tissue. Two basic mechanisms are involved. Fixed - Membrane - Receptor Mechanism The fixed - membrane - receptor mechanism, applies…
In terms of their chemical structure, hormones can be grouped into two general classes: i) lipid, or steroid, hormones ii) hormones derived from amino acids. Steroid hormones, which include the…
An animal hormone (Grhormaein, to set in motion or to spur on) is a chemical signal that is secreted into body fluids, most often into the blood, by specialized cells…
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