Cellular Responses to Hormones That Initiate Second-Messenger Systems Include ________

question 125

Multiple Choice

Cellular responses to hormones that initiate second-messenger systems include ________.

• A) possible activation of several different second-messenger systems
• B) hormone binding to intracellular receptors
• C) cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase formation of an active second messenger
• D) formation of a specific protein kinase that acts on a series of extracellular intermediates

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