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juxtaparacrine

juxtaparacrine adjective: that acts near the endocrine cell that released it.

Adjective

juxtaparacrine (not comparable)

  1. That acts near the endocrine cell that released it
    • A previous work showed that motor neurons use Slit2 to promote their axon fasciculation by an autocrine or juxtaparacrine mechanism ( Jaworski and Tessier-Lavigne, 2012 ).2015, Haitao Wu et al., “Slit2 as a β-catenin/Ctnnb1-dependent retrograde signal for presynaptic differentiation”, in eLife, volume 4, →DOI

Origin of juxtaparacrine

From juxta- + paracrine.

Questions about juxtaparacrine

What does juxtaparacrine mean?
Juxtaparacrine means that acts near the endocrine cell that released it.
What part of speech is juxtaparacrine?
Juxtaparacrine is an adjective.

Words near juxtaparacrine in the dictionary

  1. juxtanuclear
  2. juxtaoral
  3. juxtaoral organ
  4. juxtaoral organs
  5. juxtapapillary
  6. juxtaparacrine
  7. juxtaparanodal
  8. juxtaparanode
  9. juxtaparanodes
  10. juxtaparaventricular
  11. juxtaphrenic

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