Concept information
Preferred term
Second Messenger Systems
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Intracellular Second Messenger
- Intracellular Second Messengers
- Messengers, Intracellular Second
- Second Messenger, Intracellular
- Second Messengers, Intracellular
Note
- a metab concept; IM; coord with substance acting as the second messenger (IM) with /physiol or /antag as applicable
Scope note
- Systems in which an intracellular signal is generated in response to an intercellular primary messenger such as a hormone or neurotransmitter. They are intermediate signals in cellular processes such as metabolism, secretion, contraction, phototransduction, and cell growth. Examples of second messenger systems are the adenyl cyclase-cyclic AMP system, the phosphatidylinositol diphosphate-inositol triphosphate system, and the cyclic GMP system.
History note
- 89
In other languages
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Finnish
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second messenger -järjestelmä
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second messenger -järjestelmät
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toisiolähettijärjestelmä
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015290
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