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Paracrine Communication

"Paracrine Communication" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Cellular signaling in which a factor secreted by a cell affects other cells in the local environment. This term is often used to denote the action of INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS on surrounding cells.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Paracrine Communication" by people in this website by year, and whether "Paracrine Communication" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 30 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2012
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