Question

Patients with both Graves disease and

Cushing syndrome are overproducing hormones
that have which one of the following in
common?
(A) Reacting with receptors in the cell
membrane
(B) Utilizing second messengers
(C) Binding to intracellular receptors
(D) Binding to RNA to produce physiologically
active proteins
(E) Inducing rRNA to ablate a particular genes
expression

Answer 1

Hormones from both Graves' disease and Cushing's syndrome bind to intracellular receptors to regulate gene expression and protein synthesis.

Step-by-step explanation:

Patients with both Graves' disease and Cushing's syndrome are experiencing hypersecretion of hormones that bind to intracellular receptors. Graves' disease leads to the overproduction of thyroid hormones due to thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulins binding to the TSH receptor, whereas Cushing's syndrome involves excessive production of cortisol due to various causes such as a pituitary tumor. Both thyroid hormones and cortisol display their effects by entering target cells and binding to specific receptors within the cell, influencing gene expression and subsequent protein synthesis.