Question
Drugs acting through nuclear receptors
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Answer
Corticosteroids, Thyroid hormone (also sex steroids/vitamin D) — lipophilic hormones that diffuse across the cell membrane and bind intracellular/nuclear receptors, altering gene transcription; characteristically slower in onset but longer-lasting than drugs acting on membrane-bound receptors.
1 Corticosteroids
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