Synergism
We all know that some steroids increase each others effect, hence cycles and stacks.
Like arnold said “If you can’t grow on Deca and Dianabol, you can’t grow on anything”. We all know injectables and orals combine great. Still I know a lot of athletes that only use injectables.
An interesting study:
If you look at the effect of steroids on the level of the muscle cell, then steroids differ more from each other than scientists thought. We came to this conclusion after German researchers have done experiments with genetically altered cells.
The German researchers modified cells from hamsters. In the genetic material of those cells they added new genes, causing the cells to produce androgen receptors (proteins where androgens should dock to start an effect) . If an androgen docks to the androgen receptor, it promotes a signal to three different genetic switches in the genetic material of cells. These switches are called 'Promoters'. When a receptor activated a promoter, then the cell produced a fluorescent protein. The more protein, the more powerful the androgenic signal was.