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It is secreted into the circulation from the stomach, but is also synthesised in a number of other tissues, including the kidney, pituitary, and hypothalamus, suggesting that the hormone has both distant and local (endocrine and paracrine) effects.
Because the result could not always be predicted by a mathematic estimation, there is a possibility that cell-cell contacts and some autocrine/paracrine production in a culture may alter the microenvironment thus determine the cytotoxicity caused by H 2 O 2 . Since cells with lower density are more susceptible to oxidative stress, there is a possibility that a vicious cycle exists such that when an area of RPE loses some of the constituent cells by oxidative stress, the remaining cells will become even more vulnerable to this insult.
Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF) is a paracrine factor produced primarily by mesenchymal cells.
Both PGE 2 and a cascade of proteolytic events that lead to extracellular matrix degradation have the potential for serving as paracrine regulators.
Because SC were occasionally found juxtaposed to developing follicles, blood vessels and secondary interstitial cells, one cannot exclude the possibility that the SC-derived BMPs may have paracrine functions.