Water-soluble hormones. Most water-soluble hormones such as glycoproteins and peptides combine with a receptor present on the plasma membrane because they are not lipid soluble and cannot move ...

Because certain variants in TREM2 increase a person's risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, how this microglial receptor influences AD pathology is an area of intense investigation. Now, researchers ...

Soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) is the circulating form of a glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol–anchored three-domain membrane protein that is expressed on a variety of ...