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Image: Steroid and Lipid Hormones

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Description: The left diagram shows a steroid (lipid) hormone (1) entering a cell and (2) binding to a receptor protein in the nucleus, causing (3) mRNA synthesis which is the first step of protein synthesis. The right side shows protein hormones (1) binding with receptors which (2) begins a transduction pathway. The transduction pathway ends (3) with transcription factors being activated in the nucleus, and protein synthesis beginning. In both diagrams, a is the hormone, b is the cell membrane, c is the cytoplasm, and d is the nucleus.
Title: Steroid and Lipid Hormones
Credit: Mader, Sylvia S. Biology tenth edition New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. Print.
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