Meanings
adjectivejuxtaparacrine (not comparable)
- not comparableThat 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
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