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Title: How does Oxytocin travel?
Post by: rjcool123 on Aug 28, 2012
How does oxytocin travel to its target tissues?


Title: How does Oxytocin travel?
Post by: JulieA on Aug 28, 2012
oxytocin travels through the bloodstream. because it is a protein hormon, it cannot cross the membrane of a cell. therefore, it must bind to G protein receptors at the surface of the cell and this causes the signal to be transduced inside a cell.


Title: How does Oxytocin travel?
Post by: feeju on Aug 28, 2012
Remember that words ending with -in are many times hormones, so they travel through the bloodstream and then stimulate a protein receptor on the cell membranes to exert their influence.