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autocrine systems

1) One of three fundamental types (with paracrine and endocrine) of cellular regulation by intercellular diffusible factors, where the diffusible factor exerts a regulatory influence primarily on the same cell that secreted it.

2) Organ systems involved in self-stimulation through cellular production of a factor and a specific receptor for it.

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