(thing) by BioTech Mon Aug 12 2002 at 19:58:47
A form of bioregulation in which a secretion produced by one cell type in a tissue diffuses through the tissue and affects another cell type in the same tissue. Autocrine factors are an example of a such a secretion.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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