juxtaparacrine

English

Etymology

From juxta- +‎ paracrine.

Adjective

juxtaparacrine (not comparable)

1. (of a hormone etc) That acts near the endocrine cell that released it
   • 2015, Haitao Wu et al., “Slit2 as a β-catenin/Ctnnb1-dependent retrograde signal for presynaptic differentiation”, in eLife‎^[1], volume 4, →DOI:

     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 ).