Essays Tagged: "Target cell"
Steroid and non-steroid hormones differ in how they affect target cells. Describe the mechanisms involved using specific examples of each. How is it that hormones affect some cells and not others?
f an endocrine gland that is released into the blood. Hormones regulate development and activity in target tissues somewhere else at a distance in the body. Steroid hormones include cortisol, estrogen ... erotonin, and vasopressin.Steroid hormones, like estrogen, directly affect gene expression in their target cells. These hormones are lipid soluble and can diffuse directly through the the plasma membr ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Essay topic 5. Neuromuscular junction as site of disease process. AND Formation of Nuromuscular junction.
junction have been extensively studied and are the most comprehensively understood of any nerve-to-target cell contact.Prior to formation of the synapse all three components of the neuromuscular junc ... derived from neural crest cells and associate with axons from the somite onwards to the peripheral target.At the time of the first axons reaching the developing muscle, the muscle fibres are myoblast ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry