True or False? Since we know hormones which are lipophilic,…
True or False? Since we know hormones which are lipophilic, like the steroid hormones, are transported in the blood via carrier proteins, this means they must have much shorter half-lives than ones which dissolve in plasma, like the peptide hormones. Hint: think of an example of a steroid hormone and a peptide hormone and ask yourself which one remains in circulation longer before being broken down, recycled and/or excreted.
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