paracrine signaling

id: GO:0038001
name: paracrine signaling
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The transfer of information from one cell to another, where the signal travels from the signal-producing cell to the receiving cell by passive diffusion or bulk flow in intercellular fluid. The signaling cell and the receiving cell are usually in the vicinity of each other.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0007267cell-cell signaling