Hormones: practice question

The best answer is A, Insulin. Insulin binds a cell-surface receptor tyrosine kinase, triggering phosphorylation cascades that alter glucose, lipid, and protein metabolism.

Cortisol uses intracellular receptor.

Aldosterone uses intracellular mineralocorticoid receptor.

Thyroxine uses nuclear receptor.

It tests Hormones in Biochemistry. The correct option holds because: Correct: insulin receptor has intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity.

We tag it as an application question: it asks you to use a fact on a patient or a finding. The tag is our own editorial judgement, not an official difficulty rating, so read the reason for every option, not only the answer.

Build one table of enzyme deficiency, disease, inheritance and key finding, then revise it by spaced recall. Then use the flashcards and the other Biochemistry questions on this site to test what stuck.

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