From owner-cellbiol@net.bio.net Mon Jan 20 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.starnet.net!news.starnet.net!axb.slu.edu!news From: Darren Tyson Newsgroups: bionet.cellbiol Subject: Re: Hormones Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:07:58 -0800 Organization: Saint Louis University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32E54C4E.7655@sluvca.slu.edu> References: <5c291l$571@infoserv.rug.ac.be> Reply-To: tysondr@sluvca.slu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.134.73.77 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Ruben Van Durme wrote: > > How do hormones, that bind to an intracellular receptor, > know which cells they have to enter ? > > Ruben Most likely the hormones pass into whichever cells are closest to its site of synthesis. Cheers, Darren -- Darren Tyson Ph.D. Candidate in Cell and Molecular Biology Saint Louis University tysondr@slu.edu or darren@primary.net http://www.scimart.com/darren/ .