Receptores de membrana y sus mecanismos enzimáticos de acción: patologías endocrinas asociadas / Membrane receptors, their enzymatic mechanisms of action and associated endocrine diseases

RESUMO

The cell, as a functional unit of a living individual, has the capacity to recognize signals from the extracellular compartment and to respond to these signals in a specific, precise and characteristic way. This review analyzes some membrane receptor mediated processes, characterized by a complex chain of events from the external signal to the induction of specific genes. Additionally, some endocrine diseases associated with molecular defects in some of these stages are analyzed