Steroid hormones: Interactions with membrane-bound receptors.
Steroid hormones are generally thought to pass easily across a plasma membrane into a cell, interacting once inside with soluble nuclear receptors, but recent experiments have demonstrated the importance of membrane-bound receptors in mediating the activity and the metabolism of steroid hormones.
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94141-9100, USA. hccl@itsa.ucsf.edu
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