1
If you do this experiment by injecting this ligand continuously, the
receptor could become resistant afterwards.
2
another example (n.b. NOT necessarily relevant to point 1)
growth hormone (GH) binds to its receptor and triggers a series of
downstream events, eg Stat5, cyp45 or something (cannt remember)
BUT males secrete GH in big and regular peaks, while females secrete smaller
peaks and irregularly (in another word, females secrete GH contiuously,
according to some big cow, 我持保留意见)
So this big cow says that male GH peak pattern stimulate stat5, etc, while
female GH pattern suppress many downstream signalings.
you can pm me if you wanna read these papers.