Aperson infected with the human immunodeficiency virus may have any symptoms for a period of time. during this period, the virus affects the body by doing what

It effects the body by causing symptoms like muscle aches, low-grade fever, headaches, sometimes rashes, swelling of the lymph glands may also occur, and flu-like illness. These are symptoms after a few weeks of being infected.

hormones in blood stream

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endocrine glands secrete hormones into the blood stream near them; the hormones then travel in our bloodstream until it reaches its destination, called a target cell, in distance parts of the body. in the target tissue, hormones lock onto the target’s plasma membrane, called the receptor site.

the solute can move "downhill," from regions of higher to lower concentration, relying on the specificity of the protein carrier to pass through the membrane. this process is called passive transport or facilitated diffusion, and does not require energy.