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| what type of molecule binds to cell surface receptors? |
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| what type of molecule binds to intracellular receptors |
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| small hydrophobic molecules bound to carrier protein |
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| what is endocrine signaling |
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| hormone is released into the blood and binds to target molecule. |
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| what is paracrine signaling? |
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| molecule is secreted by a near by cell and binds to that cells receptor |
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| the cell secretes a molecule and that molecule binds to a receptor on the cell |
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| what does ligand receptor interaction between cells do? |
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| activates intracellular signaling molecules |
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| how do cells secrete messages to each other? |
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| proteins that make up a connexon structure |
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| assembly of six proteins that forms gap junction between the cytoplasm of two adjacent cells |
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| what can make a signal molecule have different effects? |
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| why is there no signal amplification in steroids? |
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| because they do not bind to enzymes to potentiate. |
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| what is involved in receptor sequestration? |
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| receptor, endosome, signal molecule |
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| what is involved in receptor down regulation |
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| lysosome, receptor, molecule |
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