Page 183 - The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Neither can hor mones know that the body has a given
need and estab lish a way to affect the rel e vant cells accord -
ing ly… They sim ply per form the task set out for them
flaw less ly, with in a per fect ly estab lished sys tem, in full
sub mis sion to Allah, Who gave them this duty and cre at ed
them as com po nents of this sys tem.
As stat ed ear li er, great har mo ny exists between cells
and hor mones. Cells imme di ate ly under stand the mean ing
of the mes sa ges that hor mones bring. For exam ple, when
growth hor mone arrives, the cells imme di ate ly recog nize it
and sys tem at i cal ly imple ment such details as the rate at
which var i ous parts will grow. From that per spec tive, the
cells are told when to pro duce hor mones and in what
quan ti ties, to begin and halt pro duc tion at the right times,
and thus direct other hor mones. This is clear ly the result of
an intel lect. In the human body, as in every point in the
uni verse, the art ist ry and knowl edge of Allah, the
Omniscient is revealed for all to see.
Strikingly, though hor mones reach all the cells via the
blood stream, they have an effect on only their tar get ed
ones. As the hor mone moves in the extra cel lu lar fluid, cer -
tain cells recog nize by means of the spe cial recep tors on the
cells' sur face. The chem i cal mes sage then affects neigh bor -
ing cells. In order for its mes sage to be deci phered, the
chem i cal mes sen ger binds to the recep tors, the most wide -
spread of which are on the cell mem brane. Almost all hor -
mone recep tors are large pro teins, and every cell to be
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stim u lat ed has between 2,000 and 100,000 recep tors. But
the num ber of recep tors on the tar get cell is not fixed but
can vary from day to day, even from minute to minute.

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