What is resilience? Used differently by a range of fields from psychology to engineering, resilience has no single widely accepted definition. The concept typically connotes an ability to âbounce backâ from a stress or disturbance, potentially returning to a pre-stress norm or a transformed post-stress condition.
a chemical transmitter substance produced by cells of the body and transported by the bloodstream to the cells and organs on which it has a specific regulatory effect. adj., adj hormoÂ´nal. Hormones act as chemical messengers to body organs, stimulating certain life processes and retarding others.
Autocrine signaling is a form of cell signaling in which a cell secretes a hormone or chemical messenger (called the autocrine agent) that binds to autocrine receptors on that same cell, leading to changes in the cell.n example of an autocrine agent is the cytokine interleukin-1 in monocytes. When interleukin-1 is produced in response to external stimuli, it can bind to cell-surface receptors on the same cell that produced it.