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THE effect of steroid hormones on the movement of ions1,2 and glucose3 across artificial lipid membranes has been studied, but their activity in such membranes has not been correlated with their concentration within the membranes. The problem of uptake of steroid hormones into lipid membranes has been the subject of speculation and experiment4–7, and the work reported here has been carried out in order to examine this problem further.
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SNART, R., WILSON, M. Uptake of Steroid Hormones into Artificial Phospholipid/Cholesterol Membranes. Nature 215, 964 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215964a0
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