PSL300H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Immunoassay, Vasopressin, Anterior Pituitary
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Slide 3: only way a hormone can act on a cell is if the cell has a specific receptor for that hormone. Slide 4: peptide/proteins are most common hormones. Slide 5: essentially a string of amino acids, there needs to be a signal for their release and it is usually an increase in intercellular calcium that. Store in vesicles of the cell after being made in advance triggers exocytosis. Some protein hormones bind to carriers in the blood. *there is processing of the hormone in the golgi and it gets cleaved into fragments and the active hormone. Some act on plasma membranes which allows very quick effects. Slide 11: depending on the cell type, there are certain enzymes that are expressed in certain locations primarily. Slide 12: there are two key amine hormones. Secreted at night : made in the pineal gland and some other places *
