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signals affect only cells that are of the same cell type as the emitting cell. An example for autocrine signals is found in immune cells.
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| autocrine |
Secretion of a substance, such as a growth factor, that stimulates the secretory cell itself. One route to independence of growth control is by autocrine growth factor production.
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| autocrine growth f. |
a polypeptide, produced endogenously by a cell free from usual external growth controls, that may act on its producer cell to cause malignant transformation.
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| autocrine factor |
A growth factor produced by the cell that stimulates the same cell to grow.
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| autocrine system |
Secretion of cells that act to influence only their own growth; a local hormone. SEE: paracrine.
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