Usually means: Cell communicates by signaling itself.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. autocrine: Merriam-Webster
  2. autocrine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. autocrine: Collins English Dictionary
  4. autocrine: Wordnik
  5. autocrine: Wiktionary
  6. autocrine: Dictionary.com
  7. Autocrine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. autocrine: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. autocrine: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  5. autocrine: Medical dictionary

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  1. Autocrine: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (autocrine)

▸ adjective:  (biology) Of a hormone, neuropeptide, etc.: acting on the cell that produced it.

Similar:
proendocrine, enteroendocrine, autocrinous, endogenic, holocrine, polyendocrine, endocrine, hormonelike, apocrine, endocrin, more...

Opposite:
exocrine, paracrine, endocrine

Phrases:
Autocrine signaling, autocrine hypothesis, autocrine signalling, autocrine motility factor, more...

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Similar:
proendocrine, enteroendocrine, autocrinous, endogenic, holocrine, polyendocrine, endocrine, hormonelike, apocrine, endocrin, more...

Opposite:
exocrine, paracrine, endocrine

Phrases:
Autocrine signaling, autocrine hypothesis, autocrine signalling, autocrine motility factor, more...



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