An adjacent muscle cell and epithelial cells in the same tissue have a lipid soluable hormone diffuse into their cytosol, which results in the muscle cell responding to the signal, but no response is elicited in the epithelial cell. This is likely because ______________.

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An adjacent muscle cell and epithelial cells in the same tissue have a lipid soluable hormone diffuse into their cytosol, which results in the muscle cell responding to the signal, but no response is elicited in the epithelial cell.  This is likely because ______________.

anonymous · Answer

Have a think about hormone receptors and why one cell might respond and another not respond - gene expression is another hint.

anonymous · Answer

homones are signalling molecule which can induce some expression when it binds to the receptor .
so in the absence of receptor it may not induce any effect...