| Cell signaling is a complex system of communication | | | | * Juxtacrine Signals - Transmitted along cell |
| that regulates basic cellular activities and organizes cell | | | | membranes via protein or lipid components integral to |
| actions. The cells ability to interpret and correctly | | | | the membrane and are capable of affecting either |
| respond to their microenvironment is the foundation | | | | the emitting cell or cells in the immediate vicinity. |
| of development, repair and potential enhancement. | | | | Just as signal components in signal transduction can |
| Errors in cellular information processing result in | | | | be shared between different signal pathways and |
| diseases and ailments that are potentially curable | | | | responses to a signal inducing condition, such as |
| through Biokinetic Manipulation, or energy healing. | | | | stress, (physical or mental), so to can an energy |
| However, modern scientists still poorly understand | | | | healer or biokinetic, activate multiple beneficial |
| the architectural organization of the nucleus and still | | | | responses in our cells. The probability of successful |
| strive to develop therapies to treat these errors. The | | | | therapy or curability is based on the energy healers |
| energy healer enlists their own natural | | | | education and understanding of that education |
| electromagnetic radiation to transmit instructions to a | | | | regarding molecular biology. Those who are well |
| class of proteins known as receptors that are then | | | | versed in this area of science have an elevated |
| received by the cells. The cell then communicates | | | | probability of performing beneficial therapies. Those |
| with other cells with relative types via direct contact | | | | who are uneducated of crucial biological processes |
| over short distances via cell-cell contact or over large | | | | are practicing with blind faith that results in a |
| distances and/or scales via gap junctions. | | | | substantially higher probability to do more harm than |
| Intercellular signaling is subdivided into the following | | | | good. |
| classifications: | | | | Sources |
| * Endocrine Signals - Produced by endocrine cells, | | | | * Kathy Liszewski (May 2009) "Decoding Cell |
| travel through the blood and reach all parts of the | | | | Communication." Genetic Engineering & |
| body. | | | | Biotechnology News, Volume 29, Number 10 |
| * Paracrine Signals - Target only local cells such as | | | | * Witzany, G.111 (2000). Life: The Communicative |
| neurotransmitters. | | | | Structure. Norderstedt, Libri BoD. |
| * Autocrine Signals - Affect same cell types as the | | | | * I. Greenwald (1998) Genes in Development Volume |
| emitting cell such as immune cells. | | | | 12, pages 1751-1762. |