In the context of endocrine regulation, permissiveness refers to
A) one hormone enhancing the responsiveness of a target cell to another hormone.
B) the combined action of several hormones acting complementary to one another.
C) the expression of receptors by a cell allowing it to respond to a hormone.
D) the increase in receptor number that occurs on the surface of a target cell during hyposecretionof a hormone .
E) none of these.
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