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University of California - Riverside

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UC Riverside researchers have shown that membrane transporters (green) guide steroid hormones (orange circles) into cells, challenging a long-standing paradigm in endocrinology that simple diffusion is responsible for such transport.

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Haga-Yamanaka Lab, UC Riverside

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