Skip to main content

Intercellular and Intracellular Signaling

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

State

Intercellular signaling is communication between cells; intracellular signaling carries a message within one cell, from receptor to acting machinery.

Show

A hormone traveling from a gland to a distant organ is intercellular; the cascade it triggers inside the target cell is intracellular.

Watch for

The two levels connect, not compete — most intercellular signals end by triggering an intracellular one.

Builds on

  • Nothing — this is a starting point.

Unlocks