BIOL 1090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Cell Membrane, Phosphate, Guanine

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Messengers can travel short distances and stimulate close cells, or they can travel through the body to stimulate cells that are farther away. Autocrine signalling occurs when the cell producing the messenger expresses receptors to respond to the messenger. Paracrine signaling is more limited as they cannot travel as far and may be unstable. Endocrine signalling is when the messenger molecules reach target cells through the bloodstream. These messengers are called hormones and they act on target cells. Cells can only respond to extracellular messages if they have receptors that will recognize and bind to the messenger molecule. The molecule that binds to the receptor is a ligand. Activities a cell engages in depends on stimuli as well as intracellular machinery. Type one: a receptor sends a signal to an enzyme which sends a secondary messenger which will activate or inactivate specific proteins.

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